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Boxing Bookshelf: 'At the Fights'
If you are like me, you are probably still scrabbling for Christmas gifts. Here's a good one, albeit a bit on the expensive side. It's a photo book called, "AT THE FIGHTS: Inside the World of Professional Boxing."
Photographer Howard Schatz offers a unique perspective with this 224-page book, that includes 320 photos. Schatz had unparalleled access while putting this book together...
Read more »Boxing Bookshelf 5, a pair of heavyweights
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"Floyd Patterson, The Fighting Life of Boxing's Invisible Champion," by W.K. Stratton (Houghton, Mifflin Harcourt). Stratton does a wonderful service to the great Floyd Patterson in this book. Patterson was heavyweight champion of the world at a time when being heavyweight champion of the world meant so much more than it does today. He fought in Stadiums. The bouts were front page news...
Read more »New book on Alexis Arguello
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There are many things the boxing public knows about Alexis Arguello. If you are looking for more, Christian Giudice's book, "Beloved Warrior: The Rise and Fall of Alexis Arguello," delivers it. Giudice will take you places in Arguello's life that you have never gone before. Arguello, the hall-of-fame former champion, had a glorious career inside the ring. Outside of it, though, was quite...
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