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Million Dollar Baby: Stories From the Corner by F. X. Toole Publisher Comments This hard-hitting collection of powerful and moving tales based on the experiences of the late, great fight manager and cut man Jerry Boyd, who wrote under the pen name F. X. Toole, is now the basis for a major motion picture starring Hilary Swank and... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $1.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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The Cinderella Man by Michael Delisa Publisher Comments In 1934, Jim Braddock was down and out. His boxing career blighted by broken hands, the New York Irishman had won five of his previous 21 bouts and had been forced to quit. The Great Depression was at its height. When work dried up on the Hudson River... (read more) List Price $13.50 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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On Boxing, Expanded Edition ((2ND)95 Edition) by Joyce Carol Oates Publisher Comments Chapter One "It's a terrible sport, but it's a sport . . . the fight for survival is the fight. --Rocky Graziano, " former middleweight champion of the world They are young welterweight boxers so evenly matched they might be twins, though one has a... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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A Beautiful Mind: The Shooting Script (Newmarket Shooting Script) by Akiva Goldsman Publisher Comments "A Beautiful Mind, the intensely human drama of a true genius, is inspired by events in the life of mathematician John Forbes Nash, Jr. The handsome and highly eccentric Nash made an astonishing discovery early in life and stood on the brink of... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Cinderella Man: The Shooting Script (Newmarket Shooting Script) by Ron Howard Publisher Comments The Academy Award®-winning team behind A Beautiful Mind—comprised of producer Brian Grazer, director Ron Howard, screenwriter Akiva Goldsman, and actor Russell Crowe—reunites to tell the quintessentially American story of legendary boxer... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson by Geoffrey C. Ward Publisher Comments He was the first black heavyweight champion in history, the most celebrated — and most reviled — African American of his age. In Unforgivable Blackness, the prizewinning biographer Geoffrey C. Ward brings to vivid life the real Jack Johnson, a... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Hardcover
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Braddock: The Rise of the Cinderella Man by Jim Hague Publisher Comments The only available biography of a boxing legend. James J. Braddock's nickname-the Cinderella Man-was an understatement. His rise from hard-luck, bottom-rung local slugger to heavyweight champion of the world is still regarded as one of the greatest true... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $2.98 Used - Trade Paper
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Cinderella Man: James Braddock, Max Baer, and the Greatest Upset in Boxing History by Jeremy Schaap Publisher Comments Against the gritty backdrop of the Depression, "Cinderella Man" brings the dramatic all-American story of boxer James Braddock to life, evoking a time when the sport of boxing resonated with a country trying desperately to get back on its feet.... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $5.98 Used - Hardcover
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The Gloves: A Boxing Chronicle by Robert Anasi Review "A dying blook sport is reincarnated as a metaphor for redemption under flawed circumstances."--Nita Rao, The Village Voice "Robert Anasi . . . can turn a phrase as clean as a neatly wrapped fist."--Stephanie Zacharek, Newsday "As gripping as any Arctic... (read more) List Price $28.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Cinderella Man by Marc Cerasini Publisher Comments Set in New York in the Depression, this is the story of Jim Braddock, who takes up boxing to make money to feed his family, and eventually goes up against champ Max Baer, notorious for having killed two men in the ring. James J. Braddock, born in New... (read more) List Price $6.99 Your price: $1.95 Used - Mass Market
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The Fight of the Century: Jack Johnson, Joe Louis, and the Struggle for Racial Equality by Thomas R. Hietala Publisher Comments This is a revealing look at the history of race relations in the United States during the first half of the twentieth century portrayed through the lives and times of the first two African-American heavyweight boxing champions, Jack Johnson and Joe Louis.... (read more) Your price: $40.25 New - Trade Paper 
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