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

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, Jos Torres, Carmen Basilio, Joe Louis, Willie Pep, and Archie Moore--on boxers, racketeers, drugs, payoffs, managers. Including two never-before-published interviews with Roberto Dur n and Alexis Arg ello, this newly expanded and updated edition of In This Corner. . . is undoubtedly the best one-volume history of boxing ever written.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Published: 08/22/1994
ISBN: 9780306806032
Pages: 456
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 8.54h x 5.57w x 1.06d

Review Citations: Library Journal 03/01/1995