"In This Corner-- !"

"In This Corner-- !" Forty-Two World Champions Tell Their Stories

Expanded and updated Edition, 1st Da Capo Press Edition

Paperback (22 Aug 1994)

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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.

Book information

ISBN: 9780306806032
Publisher: Little, Brown
Imprint: Da Capo Press
Pub date:
Edition: Expanded and updated Edition, 1st Da Capo Press Edition
DEWEY: 796.830922
DEWEY edition: 20
Language: English
Number of pages: 453
Weight: 528g
Height: 216mm
Width: 139mm
Spine width: 27mm