Once There Were Giants (eBook)

The Golden Age of Heavyweight Boxing

Jerry Izenberg (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2017
252 Seiten
Skyhorse Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-5107-1475-5 (ISBN)

Infos

A celebration and memorial of the greatest era of heavyweight fighters from 1962 to 1997, as witnessed ringside by an International Boxing Hall of Fame sportswriter.Once upon a time, of all the memories made in ballparks and arenas from California to New York, there was nothing to rival that magic moment that could grab a heavyweight fight crowd by its collective jugular vein and trigger a tsunami of raw emotion before a single punch had even been thrown.Thats the way it was when the heavyweight giants danced in the boxing ring during the golden eras of the greats Ali, Frazier, Holmes, and Spinks, to name a few. There will never again be a heavyweight cycle like the one that began when Sonny Liston stopped Floyd Patterson and ended when Mike Tyson bit a slice out of Evander Holyfields ear; when no ersatz drama, smoke, mirrors, and noise followed a fighters entry into the ring; when the crowds knew that these men were not actors on a stage but rather giants in a ring with a single purposeto fight other giants.By the ringside, acclaimed sportswriter Jerry Izenberg watched history as it was being made during those legendary days, witnessing fights like the Thrilla in Manila and the Rumble in the Jungle and preserving them in punchy yet tremendous prose. Delivering both his eyewitness accounts and revelatory back stories of this greatest era of heavyweight boxing, Izenberg invites readers to a place of recollection.Once There Were Giants is his memorial to this extraordinary time, the likes of which we shall never see again.

Autor

Jerry Izenberg has been a sportswriter and columnist at the Star-Ledger for fifty-four of his sixty-five years in the business. He has been inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame, the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Hall of Fame, and the Sports Hall of Fame of New Jersey, and he is the only sportswriter to be inducted into the New Jersey Literary Hall of Fame. He won the Associated Press’s Red Smith Award for distinguished contributions to sports journalism as well as the Fleischer Award for Boxing Journalism. Izenberg has covered fifty Kentucky Derbies and is one of the two sports columnists to have covered all fifty Super Bowls. He is married with four children and nine grandchildren. He lives in Henderson, Nevada.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 7.2.2017
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Kampfsport / Selbstverteidigung
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Weitere Fachgebiete ► Sportwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: 1970s • america books on boxing histories • books on boxing champions • books on boxing workouts • books on champions • books on cops • books on dives • books on fight games • books on giants • books on heavyweight boxings books on heavyweight cha • books on heavyweight championships • books on howard hughes • books on manos • books on mobsters • books on panama • books on piedra • books on pounds • books on referees • books on ringsides • books on sadler • books on shaun • books on sugar rays • books on viets • books on warrants • books on world champions • Boxers • boxing career • boxing champ • boxing champion • boxing history • boxing workout • Champions • conclusively • Cops • Dive • fight game • Fitness • forty-five • Giants • Heavyweight Boxing • heavyweight champion • Heavyweight Championship • Heroin • homicide investigation • Howard Hughes • Las Vegas • MANOS • marc ratner • mobsters • Muhammad Ali • Nevada • Panama • piedra • pounds • Referee • ringside • roberto duran • Sadler • seven-time • Shaun • Sonny Liston • Sport • sportswriter • Sugar Ray • unabashedly • viet • warrants • womanizing • World Champion
• ISBN-10: 1-5107-1475-8 / 1510714758
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5107-1475-5 / 9781510714755