In This Corner . . . !
Author | : Peter Heller |
Publisher | : Da Capo Press |
Total Pages | : 456 |
Release | : 1994-08-22 |
ISBN-10 | : 0306806037 |
ISBN-13 | : 9780306806032 |
Rating | : 4/5 (37 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: Here is Jake LaMotta discussing his career as a hoodlum; Floyd Patterson on growing up in the ghetto; Gunboat Smith on the Jack Johnson era; Jack Dempsey on the Willard fight and the Tunney ”long count”; Rocky Graziano on showbiz; and dozens of others—including Sugar Ray Robinson, Willie Pastrano, José Torres, Carmen Basilio, Joe Louis, Willie Pep, and Archie Moore—on boxers, racketeers, drugs, payoffs, managers. Including two never-before-published interviews with Roberto Durán and Alexis Argüello, this newly expanded and updated edition of In This Corner. . . ! is undoubtedly the best one-volume history of boxing ever written.