In This Corner . . . !: Forty-two World Champions Tell Their Stories - Softcover

Heller, Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0306806037 ISBN 13: 9780306806032

Publisher: Da Capo Press, 1994

Synopsis

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, José Torres, Carmen Basilio, Joe Louis, Willie Pep, and Archie Moore on boxers, racketeers, drugs, payoffs, managers. Including two never-before-published interviews with Roberto Durán and Alexis Argüello, this newly expanded and updated edition of In This Corner. . . ! is undoubtedly the best one-volume history of boxing ever written.

About this title

About the Author:

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.

From Library Journal:

"Boxing fans should welcome this chance to hear their favorites speak in their own voices, as well as learn more or less firsthand about fight managers, white hopes, and the continual encroaching of the underworld on the sport," said LJ's reviewer of this volume in which Heller interviews 40 former titleholders (LJ 9/1/73). This edition has been revised and expanded.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Da Capo Press
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0306806037
• ISBN 13: 9780306806032
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 456