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  • Rocky Marciano

    The Brockton Blockbuster

    by John Jarrett ...
    Say hello to Rocky Marciano, the world's only undefeated heavyweight champion, a guy called Rocky Marciano. With just a 67-inch reach, two left feet and under six feet tall, Marciano blasted his way to 49 wins, 43 inside the distance. You could knock him down but you couldn't knock him out. Marciano KO'd Jersey Joe Walcott in a 1952 thriller to become world champion. Defending his title five times ... Read more

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  • The Great Benny Leonard

    Mama's Boy to World Champ

    by John Jarrett ...
    Benny Leonard was arguably the greatest lightweight champion of all time. With superb boxing skills and potent punching power, he fought over 200 times and suffered just five defeats. He spent his boyhood in a crime-ridden ghetto in Manhattan's Lower East Side and was the greatest of a long line of Jewish boxers to emerge from the slums. Leonard was still only 19 when he knocked out Freddie Welsh ... Read more

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  • Henry Armstrong

    Boxing's Super Champ

    by John Jarrett ...
    Henry Armstrong: Boxing's Super Champ is the story of arguably the most incredible fighter in the history of boxing - told by one of the few surviving writers to have been around during Armstrong's unique world championship reign. When Henry had his arm raised on 17 August 1938, after winning a blood-spattered 15-round decision over Lou Ambers, he became the first boxer to simultaneously hold ... Read more

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  • Max Baer

    Clown Prince of Boxing

    by John Jarrett ...
    They called Max Baer the "Clown Prince of Boxing," but trainer Ray Arcel remembered a night in 1933 when he worked Baer's corner in what was probably Max's greatest triumph, the night he smashed Max Schmeling to defeat in 10 brutal rounds. That was no clown. A year later, Baer was heavyweight champion of the world. From a $4 a day foundry worker, Baer's rise was rapid. He bought so many suits he ... Read more

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  • Dempsey and the Wild Bull

    The Four Minute Fight of the Century

    by John Jarrett ...
    They still call it the most sensational fight ever for the world heavyweight championship, between champion Jack Dempsey and his hammer-fisted Argentine challenger, Luis Angel Firpo. Back in the Roaring Twenties, 85,000 packed into New York's Polo Grounds to see all three minutes 57 seconds of it. Nobody asked for their money back. In the first round Firpo was floored seven times, but got up to ... Read more

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  • The Sugar Ray Robinson Story

    Boxing's Comeback King

    by John Jarrett ...
    Over 25 years Sugar Ray Robinson ruled three divisions, from lightweight to middleweight. As a kid he had danced for pennies on the streets of Harlem, and he danced again in the ring from New York and Vegas to Paris and back again. After a brilliant amateur career he turned pro in 1940 and won his first 40 contests before Jake LaMotta snapped his streak of 123 fights. He was unbeaten over the next ... Read more

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  • Toy Bulldog

    The Fighting Life and Times of Mickey Walker

    by John Jarrett ...
    This is a cradle-to-grave biography of Mickey Walker, former welterweight (1922-1926) and middleweight champion (1926-1931) of the world, one of the greatest fighters in ring history. He fought at a time when boxing was a major sport with only eight championships, and he held two of them over a nine-year period. He fought at a time when each weight division was jammed with good fighters, and he ... Read more

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    This is the untold story of the secret scandal behind baseball's most legendary moment:The Shot Heard Round the World. A Washington Post Best Book of the Year.At 3:58 p.m. on October 3, 1951, Bobby Thomson hit a home run off Ralph Branca. The ball sailed over the left field wall and into history. The Giants won the pennant. That moment—the Shot Heard Round the World—reverberated from the West Wing ... Read more

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  • Unbeaten

    Rocky Marciano's Fight for Perfection in a Crooked World

    by Mike Stanton ...
    From the Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and author of The Prince of Providence, a revelatory biography of greatest heavyweight champion of all time.Named a Best Book of the Year by The Boston Globe and Library JournalA Wall Street Journal 2018 "Reader Favorite"The son of poor Italian immigrants, with short arms and stubby legs, Rocky Marciano accomplished a feat that eluded legend... ... Read more

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  • Baseball Anecdotes

    From its winners to its sinners, two bestselling sportswriters chronicle a dizzying trip through more than a century of baseball lore and legend.Some of the stories are celebrated—from Ruth's called shot to DiMaggio's streak to Mays's catch. Some of the men are titans of the game—Mantle, Williams, Koufax. But alongside those stories passed from generation to generation, Daniel Okrent and Steve ... Read more

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  • Fenway Park

    A Salute to the Coolest, Cruelest, Longest-Running Major League Baseball Stadium in America

    A centennial celebration of the Boston Red Sox's home stadium and the city's historical landmark.Fenway Park evokes a team and a sport that have become more synonymous with a city's identity than any stadium or arena in the country. The park's instantly recognizable confines have seen some of the most dramatic happenings in baseball history, including Carlton Fisk's "Is it fair?" home run in the ... Read more

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  • Ezzard Charles

    A Boxing Life

    Greatness is often overlooked in its own time. For Ezzard Charles--one of boxing's most skilled practitioners, with a record of 93-25-1 (52 KO)--recognition took decades. Named by The Ring magazine as the greatest light heavyweight of all time, Charles was frustrated in his attempts to get a shot at the 175-pound title, and as World Heavyweight Champion (1949-1951) struggled to win the respect of ... Read more

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