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• Author(s): Mark Allen Baker • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Boxing For six decades the World Colored Heavyweight Championship was a useful tool of racial oppression--the existence of th...

• Author(s): Mark Allen Baker • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Boxing Inside Madison Square Garden, the City Ring was the altar of pugilism from 1925 until 2007. Hosting countless champio...

• Author(s): Mark Allen Baker • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Boxing Oscar "Battling" Nelson (1882-1954) was perhaps the toughest professional boxer ever to enter the ring. Although a Hal...

• Author(s): Mark Allen Baker • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Boxing In the weight sensitive sport of boxing, Jack Dillon, "The Giant Killer," was considered an anomaly. Size was irreleva...

• Author(s): Mark Allen Baker • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Boxing Abraham Washington Attell (1883-1970) was among the cleverest, most scientific professional boxers ever to enter the r...

• Author(s): Mark Allen Baker • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Boxing Holding the world featherweight boxing championship for more than 11 years, Johnny Kilbane's name became synonymous wi...

• Author(s): Mark Allen Baker • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Boxing Among the best pound-for-pound fighters of all time, Willie Pep (1922-2006) was a virtuoso of the squared circle. A tw...

• Author(s): Mark Allen Baker • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Boxing Born Luigi d'Ambrosio, Lou Ambers grew up in Herkimer, New York, during the Great Depression. He and his nine siblings...