Description
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.
Author: Peter Heller
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Published: 08/22/1994
Pages: 456
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 8.54h x 5.57w x 1.06d
ISBN13: 9780306806032
ISBN10: 0306806037
BISAC Categories:
- Performing Arts | General
Author: Peter Heller
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Published: 08/22/1994
Pages: 456
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 8.54h x 5.57w x 1.06d
ISBN13: 9780306806032
ISBN10: 0306806037
BISAC Categories:
- Performing Arts | General
About the Author
Peter Heller is the author of Bad Intentions: The Mike Tyson Story. A sports producer for ABC News, he lives in Putnam Valley, New York and Boca Raton, Florida.