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Ringside: A Treasury of Boxing Reportage | 
 enlarge | Author: Budd Schulberg
Creator: Hugh Mcilvanney
Publisher: Ivan R. Dee, Publisher
Category: Book
List Price: $16.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 878171
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 384
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 8.2 x 5.6 x 1.2
ISBN: 156663749X
Dewey Decimal Number: 796
EAN: 9781566637497
ASIN: 156663749X
Publication Date: October 26, 2007
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Product Description
In this bountiful collection of his best boxing stories of the last half-century, Mr. Schulberg takes his fans all the way back to an epic bare-knuckle contest in England two hundred years ago; draws a revealing portrait of Uncle Mike Jacobs, the promotional impresario of boxing in its Golden Age; expertly places Joe Louis and Muhammad Ali in the social history of their times; brings fans up to date in the careers of the great names of recent decades-Tyson, Holyfield, De La Hoya, Hopkins, Chico Corrales; and much more. His writing sparkles with authority and insight. Here is great writing on great fighters, laced with a realistic sense of boxing's wrongs as well as its rights. Publication of Ringside is an event in the world of sports literature.
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A T.K.O. October 27, 2006
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
Budd Schulberg at ninety is still punching. In this collection of his boxing writing he brings us back to some of the most exciting moments in his long ring history. He concludes with a lengthy portrait of the famed boxing promoter Lew Jacobs.
Schulberg is a real aficionado of the sport who knows it from inside. And those who love the sport will greatly enjoy the collection. Most touching in it is his concern for what happens to fighters after they leave the ring.
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