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In This Corner . . . !: Forty-two World Champions Tell Their Stories
Paperback / softback
Main Details
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In This Corner . . . !: Forty-two World Champions Tell Their Stories
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| Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Peter Heller
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| Physical Properties |
| Format:Paperback / softback | | Pages:456 | | Dimensions(mm): Height 215,Width 142 |
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| Category/Genre | Biographies and autobiography
Boxing |
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| ISBN/Barcode |
9780306806032
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| Classifications | Dewey:796.830922 |
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Publishing Details |
| Publisher |
Hachette Books
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| Imprint |
Da Capo Press Inc
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| Publication Date |
22 August 1994 |
| Publication Country |
United States
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Description
Here is Jake LaMotta discussing his career as a hoodlum; Floyd Patterson on growing up in the ghetto; Gunboat Smith on the Jack Johnson era; Jack Dempsey on the Willard fight and the Tunney long count; Rocky Graziano on showbiz; and dozens of othersincluding Sugar Ray Robinson, Willie Pastrano, Jos Torres, Carmen Basilio, Joe Louis, Willie Pep, and Archie Mooreon boxers, racketeers, drugs, payoffs, managers. Including two never-before-published interviews with Roberto Durn and Alexis Arg ello, this newly expanded and updated edition of In This Corner...! is undoubtedly the best one-volume history of boxing ever written.
Author Biography
Peter Heller is the author of Bad Intentions: The Mike Tyson Story. A sports producer for ABC News, he lives in Putnam Valley, New York and Boca Raton, Florida.
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