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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Duffy Dombrowski is not your average social worker. When he's not counseling sex addicts and drug users in a town outside of New York City, you can find him crooning Elvis tunes, getting "Schlitzed" with his quirky friends, or fighting ex-Olympians in the boxing ring. Our less-than-perfect hero occasionally uses his mean left hook on pimps and other lowlifes, too. But at least he cares about his clients. When Walanda, a schizophrenic, crack-addicted prostitute, is murdered, Duffy pledges to take care of her basset hound "Allah King" and find her missing stepdaughter, Shony. He's horrified to discover the teenager is ensnared in a web porn ring-a vile enterprise that enslaves crack-addicted women and their children.On the verge of losing his job - and his life - Duffy also gets mixed up with a creepy doctor with ties to Pakistani extremists. Still, nothing will stop this conflicted Robin Hood from trying to save Shony and foil a terrorist plot. "If you like underdogs, colourful characters, a fighter who never quits and a canine with more bite and heart than Jake LaMotta-then you'll find On the Ropes a unanimous winner' - Teddy Atlas, ESPN Boxing Analyst.…

Hardback. Condition: Good. 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 and five-time middleweight champion, he had a career that spanned three decades. With his graceful yet powerful style and Hollywood looks -- which he would use to his advantage upon his final retirement from boxing -- he embodied the very essence of the "sweet science." Before he finally hung up his boxing gloves in 1965, at the age of forty-four, Sugar Ray Robinson won 125 consecutive fights, including victories over Henry Armstrong, Kid Gavilan, Carmen Basilio, Jake LaMotta, Rocky Graziano, Gene Fullmer, and Randy Turpin. His successes were not his alone, however. They belonged to his family as well, though those relationships would be marked by neglect and abuse. At a time still characterized by discrimination, his victories, like those of Jackie Robinson, represented victories for all black America. And they were all the more symbolic because of the place he chose to call home -- Harlem. Co-written with Robinson's son, Ray Robinson II, and thoroughly researched by Amsterdam News reporter Herb Boyd, Pound for Pound is not only a definitive portrait of an emotionally complex man and his family, it is also a portrait of Harlem at the apex of its creativity, a time when Miles Davis was playing at Minton's, Langston Hughes was writing his divine poetry, and a boy from Georgia originally named Walker Smith Jr. would take on the moniker "Sugar.".…

Paperback. Condition: Fair. 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 others-including Sugar Ray Robinson, Willie Pastrano, Jos Torres, Carmen Basilio, Joe Louis, Willie Pep, and Archie Moore-on boxers, racketeers, drugs, payoffs, managers. Including two never-before-published interviews with Roberto Dur n 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.…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Duffy Dombrowski is not your average social worker. When he's not counseling sex addicts and drug users in a town outside of New York City, you can find him crooning Elvis tunes, getting "Schlitzed" with his quirky friends, or fighting ex-Olympians in the boxing ring. Our less-than-perfect hero occasionally uses his mean left hook on pimps and other lowlifes, too. But at least he cares about his clients. When Walanda, a schizophrenic, crack-addicted prostitute, is murdered, Duffy pledges to take care of her basset hound "Allah King" and find her missing stepdaughter, Shony. He's horrified to discover the teenager is ensnared in a web porn ring-a vile enterprise that enslaves crack-addicted women and their children.On the verge of losing his job - and his life - Duffy also gets mixed up with a creepy doctor with ties to Pakistani extremists. Still, nothing will stop this conflicted Robin Hood from trying to save Shony and foil a terrorist plot. "If you like underdogs, colourful characters, a fighter who never quits and a canine with more bite and heart than Jake LaMotta-then you'll find On the Ropes a unanimous winner' - Teddy Atlas, ESPN Boxing Analyst.…

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Gleason's Gym is the last remaining institution of New York's Golden Age of boxing. Jake LaMotta, Muhammad Ali, Hector Camacho, Mike Tyson--the alumni of Gleason's are a roster of boxing greats. Founded in the Bronx in 1937, Gleason's moved in the mid-1980s to what has since become one of New York's wealthiest residential areas--Brooklyn's DUMBO. G.…

Hardback. Condition: Good. 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 and five-time middleweight champion, he had a career that spanned three decades. With his graceful yet powerful style and Hollywood looks -- which he would use to his advantage upon his final retirement from boxing -- he embodied the very essence of the "sweet science." Before he finally hung up his boxing gloves in 1965, at the age of forty-four, Sugar Ray Robinson won 125 consecutive fights, including victories over Henry Armstrong, Kid Gavilan, Carmen Basilio, Jake LaMotta, Rocky Graziano, Gene Fullmer, and Randy Turpin. His successes were not his alone, however. They belonged to his family as well, though those relationships would be marked by neglect and abuse. At a time still characterized by discrimination, his victories, like those of Jackie Robinson, represented victories for all black America. And they were all the more symbolic because of the place he chose to call home -- Harlem. Co-written with Robinson's son, Ray Robinson II, and thoroughly researched by Amsterdam News reporter Herb Boyd, Pound for Pound is not only a definitive portrait of an emotionally complex man and his family, it is also a portrait of Harlem at the apex of its creativity, a time when Miles Davis was playing at Minton's, Langston Hughes was writing his divine poetry, and a boy from Georgia originally named Walker Smith Jr. would take on the moniker "Sugar.".…

Paperback. Condition: Fair. 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 others-including Sugar Ray Robinson, Willie Pastrano, Jos Torres, Carmen Basilio, Joe Louis, Willie Pep, and Archie Moore-on boxers, racketeers, drugs, payoffs, managers. Including two never-before-published interviews with Roberto Dur n 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.…

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Gleason's Gym is the last remaining institution of New York's Golden Age of boxing. Jake LaMotta, Muhammad Ali, Hector Camacho, Mike Tyson--the alumni of Gleason's are a roster of boxing greats. Founded in the Bronx in 1937, Gleason's moved in the mid-1980s to what has since become one of New York's wealthiest residential areas--Brooklyn's DUMBO. G.…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 1st. stapled wraps; closed tear on back cover; small piece missing at upper tip of front cover; inside bright & clean; includes: Boxing; Fleischer (Ezzard Charles, fighter of the Year; Sugar Ray Robinson, Best All-Round Fighter, Sandy Sadler, Jacob laMotta, Vic Toweel, Dado Marinoarchie Moore, Randolph Turpin, etc), Daniel M. Daniel (LaMotta-Dauthuille, fight of the Year), Barney Nagler (Everybody's a Fight Fan), Jersey Jones (international Competition; Manuel Ortiz, Terry Allen, etc), Ted Carroll (Memorable fights of the '50s; Rex Layne, etc), Art Colins (New Faces: Joe Glambra, Libby Manzo, Ernie Roberts, Tony Allegro,). Johnny Salak (Big stories of the Year), Nat Loubet (Middleweights; Ron Delaney, Eugene Hairston, Walter Curtier, Dave Sands, Dick Turpin,) al Buck (Joe Louis fadeout), W.C. Heinz (George Bannon, Father time of Boxing), Jersey Jones (Mike mcTigue), Stanley Weston (wrestling), etc. b/w photos; Color Photo Cover of Jake Lamotta's Knockout of Laurent Dauthuille (illustrator).…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Sugar Ray Robinson was boxing royalty. King of the world. Personality with a punch. Over 25 years he ruled three divisions, from lightweight to middleweight. As a kid he had danced for pennies on the streets of Harlem, and he danced again in the ring from New York and Vegas to Paris and back again. The greatest pound-for-pound fighter in history. After a brilliant amateur career he turned professional in 1940 and won his first 40 contests before Jake LaMotta snapped his streak of 123 fights. He was unbeaten over the next nine years and would beat LaMotta in five of their six fights, taking his middleweight title in the process. One of Ray's toughest fights was with Uncle Sam over his $4 million fight earnings. He built and lost a Harlem business empire before retiring from the ring and entering showbiz. The great fighter proved a philandering husband and a redundant father before settling down with his third wife, Millie, in California where he set up the Sugar Ray Robinson Youth Foundation, teaching kids about sports and life. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition -- signed by Jake "Raging Bull" LaMotta and author Mike Fitzgerald -- of this biography of legendary Golden Age of Boxing fighter Archie Moore. Moore was an iconic boxer throughout a mind-boggling career that spanned 27 years and included more than 200 professional fights. How did he endure so much ring time? "Archie was a matador," according to the admiring Raging Bull who wrote the foreword. Signed by Jake LaMotta and Mike Fitzgerald on the front endpaper. 271 pages, illustrated, No sign of previous use. Signed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. New tightly bound hardcover in a new dust jacket. 8vo. ( 6.5 x 1 x 9.5 inches) Clean text free of marks or underlining. Includes color photo plates. Includes an index. 288 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. Over 25 years Sugar Ray Robinson ruled three divisions, from lightweight to middleweight. As a kid he had danced for pennies on the streets of Harlem, and he danced again in the ring from New York and Vegas to Paris and back again. After a brilliant amateur career he turned pro in 1940 and won his first 40 contests before Jake LaMotta snapped his streak of 123 fights. He was unbeaten over the next nine years and would beat LaMotta in five of their six fights, taking his middleweight title. One of Ray's toughest fights was with Uncle Sam over his $4 million fight earnings. He built and lost a Harlem business empire before retiring from the ring and entering showbiz. The great fighter eventually settled down with his third wife, Millie, in California where he set up the Sugar Ray Robinson Youth Foundation.…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. "I just read Carlos Acevedo on Davey Moore in Boxing News and I think he may well be the best boxing writer in the world today."--Danny Flexen, Boxing MonthlySporting Blood is a new collection of twenty essays by multiple award-winning boxing writer and historian Carlos Acevedo. The book's foreword was written by Thomas Hauser, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award nominee, who is widely recognized as one of the world's preeminent boxing authors. Highlights of Acevedo's collection include a tour de force piece about Muhammad Ali at the time of his death, as well as an incisive look at his fearsome rival, the enigmatic heavyweight Charles "Sonny" Liston. Acevedo also applies his rare talent to uncovering untold stories about fighters that include Roberto Duran, Esteban de Jesus, Carmelo Negron, Aaron Pryor, Don Jordan, Joe Frazier, Johnny Saxton, Wilfredo Gomez, Lupe Pintor, Davey Moore, Johnny Tapia, Mike Tyson, Bert Cooper, Evander Holyfield, Jake LaMotta, Ad Wolgast, Tony Ayala, Jr., Al Singer, Michael Dokes, Eddie Machen, Mike Quarry, and more. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Near fine condition black boards, red spine, and gold spine lettering contained within a very good condition non price-clipped photographic dust jacket. Includes List of Other Books by Herb Boyd; Author Dedication; Acknowledgments; Foreword; Prologue; Epilogue; Sugar's Ring Record; Interviews; Notes; Bibliography and Index. Illustrated with a section of black-and-white photographic plates. The lower page edge has a remainder mark. A 1 1/2 inch repaired tear at the rear upper jacket flap (see photographs). "Hailed by Muhammad Ali as "the king, the master, my idol," Sugar Ray Robinson was the greatest boxer American 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 and five-time middleweight champion, he had a career that spanned three decades. With his graceful yet powerful style and Hollywood looks - which he would use to his advantage upon his final retirement from boxing - he embodied the very essence of the "sweet science." Before he finally hung up his boxing gloves in 1965, at the age of forty-four, Sugar Ray Robinson won 125 consecutive fights, including victories over Henry Armstrong, Kid Gavilan, Carmen Basilio, Jake LaMotta, Rocky Graziano, Gene Fullmer, and Randy Turpin. His successes were not his alone, however. They belonged to his family as well, though those relationships would be marked by neglect and abuse. At a time still characterized by discrimination, his victories, like those of Jackie Robinson, represented victories for all black America. And they were all the more symbolic because of the place he chose to call home - Harlem. Co-written with Robinson's son, Ray Robinson II, and thoroughly researched by Amsterdam News reporter Herb Boyd, Pound for Pound is not only a definitive portrait of an emotionally complex man and his family, it is also a portrait of Harlem at the apex of its creativity, a time when Miles Davis was playing at Minton's, Langston Hughes was writing his divine poetry, and a boy from Georgia originally named Walker Smith Jr. would take on the moniker "Sugar." " - from the inner front and rear jacket flaps. …

Condition: good, good. 24 cm, 431, illus., DJ soiled and chipped, underlining on 4 pages, pages noted on front endpaper. Introduction by Muhammad Ali. For two years the author travelled around with his tape-recorder, capturingthe memories of as many boxing champions as he could, to preserve the stories of their lives and careers.…

Paperback. Condition: New. Are today's boxers better than their predecessors, or is modern boxing a shadow of its former self? Boxing historians discuss the socioeconomic and demographic changes that have affected the quality, prominence and popularity of the sport over the past century. Among the interviewees are world-renowned scholars, some of the sport's premier trainers, and former amateur and professional world champions. Chapters cover such topics as the ongoing deterioration of boxers' skills, their endurance, the decline in the number of fights and the psychological readiness of championship-caliber boxers. The strengths and weaknesses of today's superstars are analyzed and compared to those of such past greats as Joe Louis, Sugar Ray Robinson, Jack Dempsey and Jake LaMotta.…

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 271pp Illus "The Life of Boxing Legend Archie Moore." Foreword by Jake LaMotta. Preface by Bert Randolph Sugar. Afterword by Pete Ehrmann.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. L6 - A hardcover book SIGNED by Jake LaMotta with "Raging Bull" written on the front free endpaper in very good condition in very good dust jacket that is mylar protected. Dust jacket has wrinkled patch on the back top, light discoloration and shelf wear. Book lightly bowed, some bumped corners, light discoloration and shelf wear. Foreword by Jake "Raging Bull" LaMotta, Preface by Bert Randolph Sugar, Afterword by Pete Ehrmann. 9.25"x6.25", 271 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed. There was only one man who battled both Rocky Marciano and Muhammad Ali - Archie "The Old Mongoose" Moore, owner of boxing's all-time knockout record. With a seven-decade boxing career under his belt, including 27 years as a prize fighter, Moore compiled a lengthy list of accomplishments. Even boxing historians have had a hard time keeping track of the exact number of Moore's Kos - tallies differ based upon the source - and his age - opinions differ based upon whether you ask Archie of his mother. Prize writer Mike Fitzgerald does a wonderful job in setting the record straight, once and for all, in The Ageless Warrior. Fitzgerald spent considerable time with Moore and his family before the boxer's death in an effort to cage the life story of one of the 20th century's most colorful athletes. And what a story it is, Moore's opponents included a Who's Who of boxing Hall of Famers. In 1952 - already in his late thirties - Moore finally got his shot at the light heavyweight title and didn't disappoint. He successfully defended the title for nearly a decade before leaving the ring to train such stars as Ali and George Foreman. He was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 1990. Moore's life wasn't just boxing, though. The Ageless Warrior also spotlights Moore's Hollywood career in the 1960s and his beloved "Any Boy Can" youth program, which reached underprivilege youth throughout the country. Whether this is your first encounter with Archie Moore or your hundredth, the story never grows old - kind of like Archie Moore. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed.…

Hardback. Condition: New. Boxing grew to be one of the most popular sports in America in the early 1950s. Thanks to television, fans tuned in each week, rooting for their favorites, watching the best fighters in the world battle on Gillette's Friday Night Fights. These were the "Golden Years" of boxing - the ring echoed with the names of all-time legendary champions: Rocky Marciano, Sugar Ray Robinson, Kid Galivan, Jake LaMotta, Gene Fullmer, and a tough guy from Canastota, New York, Carmen Basilio. On September 23, 1957, Carmen Basilio defeated Sugar Ray Robinson to win the middleweight championship of the world. His remarkable career is a story of survival and perseverance during a fascinating time in boxing history. Basilio's story celebrates the power of the human spirit to triumph over pain and self-doubt. A man of great integrity and drive, Carmen Basilio deliberately moved up in weight class for the opportunity to challenge the great Ray Robinson for his title. His belief in himself and his insistence on being treated fairly is a testament to his core value of living an honorable life, one in which he refused to compromise his principles. His story is a compelling look back at one of the most magical periods in sports history.…

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Paperback. Condition: New. Are today's boxers better than their predecessors, or is modern boxing a shadow of its former self? Boxing historians discuss the socioeconomic and demographic changes that have affected the quality, prominence and popularity of the sport over the past century. Among the interviewees are world-renowned scholars, some of the sport's premier trainers, and former amateur and professional world champions. Chapters cover such topics as the ongoing deterioration of boxers' skills, their endurance, the decline in the number of fights and the psychological readiness of championship-caliber boxers. The strengths and weaknesses of today's superstars are analyzed and compared to those of such past greats as Joe Louis, Sugar Ray Robinson, Jack Dempsey and Jake LaMotta.…