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Edition · 1994-08-22 · Softcover

In This Corner . . . !

PHPeter Heller
1994
year of publication
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pages
English (United Kingdom)
language
Softcover
cover
Publisher
Da Capo Press
ISBN-13
978-03-0680-603-2
EAN
9780306806032
Publication date
1994-08-22
Book
In This Corner . . . ! · 1 edition
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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.