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Boston's Boxing Heritage: Prizefighting from 1882 to 1955 (MA) (Images of Sports) | 
 enlarge | Author: Kevin Smith
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Category: Book
List Price: $19.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 1338316
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 128
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 9.4 x 6.5 x 0.3
ISBN: 0738511366
Dewey Decimal Number: 973
EAN: 9780738511368
ASIN: 0738511366
Publication Date: November 6, 2002
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Bostonis Boxing Heritage: Prizefighting from 1882 to 1955 chronicles the rich history of prizefighting in Boston and the many characters that made the Hub city the home of champions. It is not only a pictorial history of the sport but also a tale of heroes and villains, gangsters and mobsters, contenders and bums, trainers and newspapermen, straight men and cheats. It is a saga of ethnicity and race, of color barriers broken and neighborhood rivalries settled and rekindled. At its core this story is truly about a city and its relationship with a sport. YYBostonis Boxing Heritage: Prizefighting from 1882 to 1955 covers the early bareknuckle years of boxing through the sportis postnWorld War II boom. When Bostonis John L. Sullivan won the heavyweight crown from Paddy Ryan in 1882, he took prizefighting from an illegal, red-light district pastime to the countryis most popular sport and in essence put Bean Town on the sporting map. For the next sixty years, Boston remained one of the elite cities in the boxing world spawning ring immortals such as George iLittle Chocolatei Dixon, Joe ithe Barbados Demoni Wolcott, William iHoneyi Mellody, Rocky Marciano, Jack ithe Boston Gobi Sharkey, and Sam ithe Boston Tar Babyi Langford. YY
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 arcadia needs to evolve May 7, 2007
I love the idea of these books but they could grow up a bit, by adding an index and a reccommended reading section.
 Boston Boxing January 19, 2007
A nice little read, well illustrated. Good book on the shelf of anyone newly interested in the history/science of pugilism.
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