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American Son: My Story
by Oscar De La Hoya  Publisher Comments From Oscar De La Hoya, one of the most celebrated fighters in the history of boxing, comes a frank and touching memoir about achieving the American Dream: his rise to the top, the power of a solid work ethic, his mother's painful death from cancer, the...
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Irish Thunder: The Hard Life & Times of Micky Ward
by Bob Halloran Publisher Comments “Irish” Micky Ward grew up in the 1970s and 80s as a tough kid from Lowell, Massachusetts—a town where boxers were once bred as a means of survival. A hard worker who overcame bad luck, bad management, and chronic pain in his hands, he...
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Muhammad Ali: His Life and Times
by Thomas Hauser Publisher Comments "The first definitive biography of Muhammad Ali" (The New York Times Book Review), this complete story--written with Ali's full cooperation--takes readers from his rural boyhood to his explosive fight career to the truth about his physical condition...
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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...
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The Muhammad Ali Reader
by Gerald Early About the Author Gerald Early is the author of The Culture of Bruising: Essays on Prizefighting, Literature, and Modern American Culture, winner of the 1994 National Book Critics Circle Award, and Tuxedo Junction: Essays on American Culture, both published by Ecco. A...
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Atlas: From the Streets to the Ring: A Son's Struggle to Become a Man
by Teddy Atlas Publisher Comments Teddy Atlas knows boxing like no one else. In Atlas, Teddy recounts his incredible life, from juvenile delinquent on the mean streets of Staten Island in the 1970s, to his induction into the legendary Cus D'Amato's Boxing Camp and his first major...
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Sweet William: The Life of Billy Conn (Sport and Society)
by Andrew Otoole Publisher Comments A tribute to Billy Conn, one of the greatest light-heavyweight boxing champions of all...
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Atlas: From the Streets to the Ring: A Son's Struggle to Become a Man
by Teddy Atlas Publisher Comments The autobiography of legendary boxing trainer and television commentator Atlas chronicles his journey as the delinquent son of a doctor to a man who embraces and lives by his father's values and codes....
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Hurricane: The Miraculous Journey of Rubin Carter
by James Hirsch Publisher Comments Carter, bereft, shunned almost all human contact until he received a letter from Lesra Martin, a teenager raised in a Brooklyn ghetto. Against his bitter instincts, Carter agreed to meet with Martin, thus taking the first step on a tortuous path back to...
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Sucker Punch: The Hard Left Hook That Dazed Ali and Killed King's Dream
by Jack Cashill Publisher Comments Everything that he has done was against this country. Joe Frazier on Muhammad Ali Part man, part myth, and all American, Muhammad Ali is history's most beloved, most revered athlete. But though he was The Greatest inside the ring, outside he was a...
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Being Sugar Ray: The Life of Sugar Ray Robinson, America's Greatest Boxer and First Celebrity Athlete
by Kenneth Shropshire Publisher Comments Muhammad Ali memorably referred to Sugar Ray Robinson as “the king, the master, my idol,” and rarely a fight fan has chosen to argue too much with those words. With a career spanning three decades, multiple championships, over two hundred...
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The Soul of a Butterfly: Reflections on Life's Journey
by Muhammad Ali Publisher Comments The world's most famous goodwill ambassador offers inspiration and hope as he describes the spiritual philosophy that sustains him and his family. In this memoir, Muhammad Ali, with the assistance of his daughter Hana, writes about the values that shaped...
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Pound for Pound
by Herb Boyd Publisher Comments Hailed by Muhammad Ali as "the king, the master, my idol," Sugar Ray Robinson was the greatest boxer America had seen since Joe Louis and is considered by many today to be, pound for pound, the best boxer the sport has ever known. A world welterweight...
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Pound for Pound: A Biography of Sugar Ray Robinson
by Herb Boyd Publisher Comments Hailed by critics as a long overdue portrait of Sugar Ray Robinson, a man who was as elusive out of the ring as he was magisterial in it, Pound for Pound is a lively and nuanced profile of an athlete who is arguably the best boxer the sport has ever...
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Redemption Song: Muhammad Ali and the Spirit of the Sixties
by Mike Marqusee Publisher Comments Marqusee puts Muhammad Ali in his true historical context to explore the 1960s crossroads of popular culture and mass resistance. 16 photos....
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Becoming Holyfield: A Fighter's Journey
by Evander Holyfield Publisher Comments History's only four-time world heavyweight boxing champion and one of America's most admired and beloved athletes reveals the dramatic story of his rise from poverty to the very pinnacle of the toughest sport on earth. Barely able to make it into the...
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Battling Siki
by Peter Benson Publisher Comments Benson's biography, the first on this controversial and misunderstood boxer, tells the fascinating story of the first African to win a world championship in boxing. "Has all the elements of a Shakespearean tragedy set in the Roaring Twenties."--Thomas...
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The Big If: The Life and Death of Johnny Owen
by Rick Broadbent Publisher Comments Johnny Owen, the Matchstick Man from Wales, and Lupe Pintor, El Indio from Mexico, met for less than 60 minutes on September 19, 1980. It was Owen's chance to become the world bantam-weight champion, but the Matchstick Man was knocked out in the 12th...
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Ali Rap
by George Lois Publisher Comments Contains over 300 rap rhythms, witticisms, insults, wisecracks, politically incorrect quips, courageous stands and words of inspiration from the mind, heart and soul of the brash young Cassius Clay, as he steadily grew into the magnificent man who is...
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Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight: Cassius Clay Vs. the United States of America
by Howard Bingham Publisher Comments Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight is a behind-the-scenes account of this battle as told by a genuine insider--Ali's closest friend, photographer Howard Bingham....
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