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| #2144709 in Books | 1987-11-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.25 x6.25 x1.25l, | File type: PDF | 318 pages||5 of 6 people found the following review helpful.| Excitement outside the Ring|By Ed Wildman, Honeywood, ON|Jeffrey Sammons offers any serious student of boxing and its history a marvellous introduction to information that otherwise might takes months -or even years- to find and assemble. From his first question: "Crime or Sport?" to one of his final conclusions that "like a weed shooting up through a crack in the sidewalk, (|From Library Journal|Sammons, a history and Afro-American studies scholar, presents a social history of boxing in America. He weaves the contributions of John L. Sullivan, Jack Dempsey, Joe Louis, Jack Johnson, etc.mostly heavyweightsinto an account of a sport b
Documents the ruin waiting for almost all those ill-advised enough to become professional boxers. The author confirms the legends, of crime, of swindling, of the miserable economic rewards allotted to the vast majority of fighters, and the traditional racism of the American ring.
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