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Language: en
Pages: 256
Pages: 256
Type: BOOK - Published: 1997-10-28 - Publisher: Praeger
The author reports on the many young Jewish fighters who began boxing for the money. In the 1920s and 1930s, "Jews were represented in almost every aspect of th
Language: en
Pages: 491
Pages: 491
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-09-21 - Publisher: McFarland
Are today's boxers better than their predecessors, or is modern boxing a shadow of its former self? Boxing historians discuss the socioeconomic and demographic
Language: en
Pages: 0
Pages: 0
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016 - Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
This book follows the lives and careers of two Jewish boxers, Max Baer and Barney Ross. Fighting in the 1920s and 1930s when anti-Semitism was rampant, American
Language: en
Pages: 273
Pages: 273
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-06-10 - Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
This collection of award-winning boxing journalist Mike Silver’s best articles from the past 40 years features a colorful mix of hard-hitting exposes and ligh