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• Author(s): Arly Allen • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Boxing Many books have discussed boxing in the ancient world, but this is the first to describe how boxing was reborn in the modern...

• Author(s): Mike Silver • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Boxing Are today's boxers better than their predecessors, or is modern boxing a shadow of its former self? Boxing historians discu...

• Author(s): Colleen Aycock | Mark Scott • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Boxing This volume presents fifteen chapters of biography of African American and black champions and challengers ...

• Author(s): Andrew Lindsay • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Ethnic Studies - American - African American & Black Studies Professional sports in America offer numerous examples of equa...

• Author(s): Chris Cozzone | Jim Boggio • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Boxing On June 28, 1868, a group of men gathered alongside a road 35 miles north of Albuquerque to witness a 165-ro...

• Author(s): Adam Chill • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Boxing Boxing was phenomenally popular in 18th and 19th century Britain. Aristocrats attended matches and patronized boxers, and th...

• Author(s): Arne K. Lang • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Boxing During the early years of the 20th century, San Francisco promoters served up boxing's grandest spectacles. On February 22...

• Author(s): Robert G. Rodriguez • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Boxing This first nationwide study of boxing regulations in the United States offers an historical overview of the subject...

• Author(s): John G. Robertson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Boxing The world heavyweight boxing championship once transcended the sport, conferring global renown. This book gives detai...

• Author(s): Doveed Linder • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Boxing Twenty-four exclusive interviews with boxing insiders feature the recollections and perspectives of champions, trainers, ...

• Author(s): Kelly Richard Nicholson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Boxing This volume offers detailed information about the boxers who were active during boxing's "Golden Age," 1890 to ...

• Author(s): Glen Sharp • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Boxing Glen Sharp's boxing career was a rise-and-fall story without so much rise in it. A sparring partner for light-heavyweight Ha...

• Author(s): Frederick V. Romano • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Guides & Reviews The love affair between boxing and Hollywood began with the dawn of film. As early as the days...

• Author(s): Joseph S. Page • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Boxing At over six and a half feet tall and nearly 300 pounds, heavyweight champion Primo Carnera was a giant for his times, bu...

• Author(s): Colleen Aycock | Mark Scott • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Sports Whether opening saloons, raising cattle, or promoting sporting events, George Lewis "Tex" Rickard (1870-192...

• Author(s): S. Derby Gisclair • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Boxing Established in 1883, the Olympic Club catered to a variety of pursuits from target shooting to billiards to boxing--t...

• 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): Donald Dewey • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Boxing Without Ray Arcel (1899-1994), the 20th century world of boxing would have been markedly different. The credibility of it ...

• Author(s): Valtteri Arstila | Dan Lloyd • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: MetaphysicsInterdisciplinary perspectives on the feature of conscious life that scaffolds every act of cognition: subjective time. Our awaren...

• Author(s): James Curl • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Sports Born into extreme poverty in 1914, Jersey Joe Walcott began boxing at the age of 16 to help feed his hungry family. After te...

• Author(s): Colleen Aycock | Mark Scott • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Sports - General Joe Gans captured the world lightweight title in 1902, becoming the first black American world ti...

• Author(s): Arne K. Lang • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Boxing This work brings a fresh perspective to the history of modern prizefighting, a sport which has evolved over several centur...

• Author(s): Sugar Ray Leonard • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: SportsIn his New York Times bestselling memoir, one of America's greatest boxing legends faces his single greatest competi...

• 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): Randy L. Swope • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Boxing While many of his peers began their careers as farmers and factory workers, Leo Florian Houck became a boxing sensation ...

• Author(s): William F. McNeil • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Boxing Covering Mike Tyson's rise through the amateur and professional boxing ranks, this book follows the Brooklyn native f...

• 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): Joseph S. Page • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Boxing Hall of Fame middleweight prizefighter John Edward Kelly, better known as Nonpareil Jack Dempsey, was one of the most po...

• Author(s): Arly Allen | James Willard Mace • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Boxing Jess Willard, the "Pottawatomie Giant," won the heavyweight title in 1915 with his defeat of Jack Johns...

• Author(s): Robert Mullins • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Boxing Among the great lightweights of the 1940s and 1950s, Boxing Hall of Famer Sidney "Beau Jack" Walker (1921-2000) was vir...

• Author(s): Armond Fields • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Entertainment & Performing Arts - General When he died in 1933, James J. "Gentleman Jim" Corbett was honored by two distingu...

• Author(s): William Dettloff • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Boxing Greatness is often overlooked in its own time. For Ezzard Charles--one of boxing's most skilled practitioners, with a ...

• Author(s): Ken Brooks • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Boxing Ingemar Johansson's right hand--dubbed "The Hammer of Thor"--was the most fearsome in boxing, and Johansson's three fights w...

• Author(s): Adam J. Pollack • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Sports Essentially the last of the bare-knuckle heavyweight champions, John L. Sullivan was instrumental in the acceptance of ...

• Author(s): Elliott J. Gorn • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Boxing"It didn't occur to me until fairly late in the work that I was writing a book about the beginnings of a national cele...