Gloves, Glory, and God
Author | : Henry Armstrong |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Boxing |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Henry Armstrong |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Boxing |
ISBN | : |
Author | : John Jarrett |
Publisher | : Robson Books Limited |
Total Pages | : 297 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 9781861054098 |
Little Jimmy Johnston, Liverpool-born New York-raised, hustled his way to the top of the American fight business in the thirties. Sports editor Bill McGeehan called him the Boy Bandit, a tribute to his youthful appearance and gift for larceny. This book was inspired by something Jimmy said back around 1935, 'The puncher always has a chance. Give me the guy who can punch, to manage, to bet on, or just to watch.' The fighters in this book were the guys Johnston was talking about. Guys like Terrible Terry McGovern, the Brooklyn Terror...Rock-fisted Stanley Ketchel, the Michigan Assassin...Sam Langford, the Boston Tar Baby...Mighty Atom Jimmy Wilde...Jack Dempsey, the Manassa Mauler...Sweet as Sugar Ray Robinson...Iron-fisted Rocky Marciano. They all wore dynamite gloves when they went to work, and some of their explosive exploits are related in the following pages.
Author | : George Sullivan |
Publisher | : National Geographic Books |
Total Pages | : 68 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1426303289 |
A biography in pictures of African-American boxer Joe Louis.
Author | : Leslie Bell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 191 |
Release | : 1950 |
Genre | : Boxing |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Gerald Astor |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Douglas Century |
Publisher | : Schocken |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 2009-08-11 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0805242724 |
Part of the Jewish Encounter series Born Dov-Ber Rasofsky to Eastern European immigrant parents, Barney Ross grew up in a tough Chicago neighborhood and witnessed his father’s murder, his mother’s nervous breakdown, and the dispatching of his three younger siblings to an orphanage, all before he turned fourteen. To make enough money to reunite the family, Ross became a petty thief, a gambler, a messenger boy for Al Capone, and, eventually, an amateur boxer. Turning professional at nineteen, he would capture the lightweight, junior welterweight, and welterweight titles over the course of a ten-year career. Ross began his career as the scrappy “Jew kid,” ended it as an American sports icon, and went on to become a hero during World War II, earning a Silver Star for his heroic actions at Guadalcanal. While recovering from war wounds and malaria he became addicted to morphine, but with fierce effort he ultimately kicked his habit and then campaigned fervently against drug abuse. And the fighter who brought his father’s religious books to training camp also retained powerful ties to the world from which he came. Ross worked for the creation of a Jewish state, running guns to Palestine and offering to lead a brigade of Jewish American war veterans. This first biography of one of the most colorful boxers of the twentieth century is a galvanizing account of an emblematic life: a revelation of both an extraordinary athlete and a remarkable man.
Author | : Robert Anasi |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 350 |
Release | : 2002-02-14 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0865475997 |
An inside look at modern-day amateur boxing describes one journalist's obsessive preparation for the Golden Gloves Tournament at the age of thirty-two.
Author | : British Museum |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 518 |
Release | : 1961 |
Genre | : Library catalogs |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Elmo Hudson |
Publisher | : AuthorHouse |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 2003-12-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1410719405 |
The benefits of this book is to inform the public how General Motors treat their black employees that files a Civil Rights complaint and lawsuit against them. They will commit fraud and conspiracy before the courts. This has been going on since August 19, 1983 to the present. This book is about all the pain and hardship I have to go through as a result of this ordeal. This will inform the blacks of what to do and say. And how they can be victorious against a large Corporation. I have experience everything that I am talking about for twenty years and still trying to get some closure from this ordeal. I have experience seeing a psychiatrist and psychologist since May 15, 1985. I was taken off work in July of 1992 and was placed on total and permanent disability with Social Security. This also tells about me leaving home and moving south to Arkansas and having to go to a all black school. I also had to plow the white man field with two mules and a plow. I also won several titles in Golden Gloves Boxing and was the number one boxer at one hundred and twenty six pounds featherweight here and I was nominated for all Army boxing. I would say to pursue your goals until you get the justice you so deserve.
Author | : Evander Holyfield |
Publisher | : Thomas Nelson Publishers |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780785276937 |
Atlanta-born boxer's biography.