Download or read book History of the Prize Ring By Pugnus Etc Pt 1 written by and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Some Recollections of the Prize Ring written by Fredrick W. J. Henning and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Stars in the Ring Jewish Champions in the Golden Age of Boxing written by Mike Silver and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-03-04 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than sixty years—from the 1890s to the 1950s—boxing was an integral part of American popular culture and a major spectator sport rivaling baseball in popularity. More Jewish athletes have competed as boxers than all other professional sports combined; in the period from 1901 to 1939, 29 Jewish boxers were recognized as world champions and more than 160 Jewish boxers ranked among the top contenders in their respective weight divisions. Stars in the Ring,by renowned boxing historian Mike Silver, presents this vibrant social history in the first illustrated encyclopedic compendium of its kind.

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Download or read book Up to Scratch written by Tony Gee and published by G2 Entertainment. This book was released on 2015-05-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Such was prize-fighting's appeal during the 18th and 19th centuries that, at its zenith, the sport was patronised by royalty and aristocracy and, notwithstanding its illegality, its contests often attracted thousands of spectators from all walks of life. Up to Scratch covers bare knuckle fighting from early English stage bouts to boxing's transitional period between knuckles and gloves. Although concentrating mainly on a region, then just north of the metropolis, which was a favourite venue of the London prize-ring, it is essentially an anecdotal account of what was unquestionably one of England's most dramatic sporting pastimes. Included are tales of some of the great champions - Tom Johnson, Daniel Mendoza, Jem Belcher, Tom Sayers and Jem Mace - as well as many forgotten, but no less colourful, fistic heroes. Up to Scratch powerfully evokes an age when pugilism was a barbaric, corrupt and yet primarily noble activity which makes today's boxing look positively tame by comparison.

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Download or read book This Sporting Life written by Robert Colls and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Sporting Life offers an important view of England's cultural history through its sporting pursuits, carrying the reader to a match or a hunt or a fight, viscerally drawing a portrait of the sounds and smells, and showing that sport has been as important in defining British culture as gender, politics, education, class, and religion.

Download or read book The Manly Art written by Elliott J. Gorn and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2012-02-28 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elliott J. Gorn's The Manly Art tells the story of boxing's origins and the sport's place in American culture. When first published in 1986, the book helped shape the ways historians write about American sport and culture, expanding scholarly boundaries by exploring masculinity as an historical subject and by suggesting that social categories like gender, class, and ethnicity can be understood only in relation to each other. This updated edition of Gorn's highly influential history of the early prize rings features a new afterword, the author's meditation on the ways in which studies of sport, gender, and popular culture have changed in the quarter century since the book was first published. An up-to-date bibliography ensures that The Manly Art will remain a vital resource for a new generation.

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Download or read book Oregon Prizefighters written by Barney Blalock and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2015-10-19 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1884, London's prizefighting craze spread to Portland. Since the fights were illegal throughout the States, matches were fought in inconspicuous venues away from unwanted spectators. A winner could be hanged if the loser died. Champions like Dave Campbell, Jack "Nonpareil" Dempsey and "Mysterious" Billy Smith were just a few contenders for the brutal, nearly forgotten sport. Join author Barney Blalock as he reveals the remarkable stories of Oregon's bare-knuckle champions.

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Download or read book Brandy for Heroes written by Jack Kofoed and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2018-12-01 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Morrissey (1831-1878), also known as Old Smoke, was an Irish-born American who became a prominent figure of the 1850’s. Raised in New York State, Morrissey moved to San Francisco at the time of the California Gold Rush in the early 1850’s. There, he took up bare-knuckle boxing and, on his return to New York, challenged and defeated “Yankee Sullivan”, then recognized as the American boxing champion. Following his boxing career, Morrissey later became a professional gambler, owning gambling houses in New York City in the 1850s and 1860s. He then became a U.S. Congressman between 1867-1871, backed by Tammany Hall, but later fell out with the political machine and became an Anti-Tammany Democratic State Senator for New York between 1876-1878. Brandy For Heroes, first published in 1938, is sportswriter Jack Kofoed’s biography of John Morrissey. Kofoed draws on his fast-paced journalistic skills and takes the reader on an exciting journey of Old Smoke’s life: from his early years in the slums of Troy, New York, to his prize fights in California, defeating the likes of Hyer, Sullivan and Heenan, and concluding with Morrissey’s political career back in his home state of New York as Senator during the 1850’s-1860’s.

Download or read book A Farewell to Heroes written by Frank Graham and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1981 and long out of print, this dual autobiography covers five unforgettable decades of the New York sporting life from 1915 to 1965. Told initially from the point of view of Frank Graham, premier sportswriter for The New York Sun, A Farewell to Heroes also includes the chronicles of Frank, Jr., who picks up the narrative as he becomes a sports journalist in his own right. Frank Graham, Sr., was a self-taught writer known for his uncanny ability to capture the high drama of a game-winning play or the color of a fight mob's conversation in spare, straightforward prose. As a reporter, he covered the rough-and-tumble Giants of John McGraw's day and continued through boxing's greatest era, spanning the reigns of Jack Dempsey and Joe Louis. As the younger Frank tells more of the story, we watch Lou Gehrig take Babe Ruth's place as the Yankees' star and then trace his glorious career to its tragic conclusion. We see firsthand the legendary Branch Rickey and Jackie Robinson and boxing's brief but golden age on television in the 1950s. Aided by sixteen photographs and preserving the most masterful of his father's writing while adding to it the best of his own, Frank Graham, Jr., has given the sports fan A Farewell to Heroes, perhaps the ultimate sports reminiscence of a time when the romance of sport gave life a golden hue, when heroes still roamed the earth. -In what he calls this 'kind of dual autobiography, ' he is his father's son, having learned to look and listen as his father did and still go his own way, - says W. C. Heinz, longtime sportswriter for The New York Sun, in his new foreword to this paperback edition.

Download or read book Raymond Lully Illuminated Doctor Alchemist and Christian Mystic written by Arthur Edward Waite and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Analysis of the Turf written by John Fairfax-Blakeborough and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: