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The original essays in this comprehensive collection examine the lives and sports of famous and not-so- famous African American men and women athletes from the nineteenth century to today. Here are twenty insightful biographies (more …) 6 x 9 500 pages, 19 photographs, index |
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Battling Siki (1887–1925) was once one of the four or five most recognizable black men in the world. . . . The colorful Siki spent a fortune partying and carousing, was arrested for firing a pistol in the air, and was frequently seen on the streets of Paris, dressed in flashy clothes, walking his pet lion cubs on a leash. (more …) $29.95 Cloth |
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The previously untold story of women’s basketball’s beginnings Prior to the 1972 passage of Title IX, women’s basketball was a minor sport in the United States. It was played by companies such as Cook’s Goldblume Beer and Sunoco and for obscure colleges such as Iowa Wesleyan and Wayland Baptist as part of the Amateur Athletic Union (AAU). (more …) $24.95 cloth |
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Acclaimed boxing writer Thomas Hauser admires the sweet science, but he also recognizes and confronts its problems. His essays here portray the sport in all its glory and gore, its grace and disgrace. (more …) 2003, 288 pages |
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This is the second collection of articles on professional boxing to be published in book form by acclaimed writer Thomas Hauser. It offers unique insights into Muhammad Ali, George Foreman, Shane Mosely, Ray Jones Jr. and many more superstars, as well as an insider's critique of the sweet science today. (more …) 2001, 200 pages |
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How sports became a cultural battleground for arguments about sacrifice, authority, manliness, and victory with honor. A revealing look into American life in the turbulent 1960s. The Vietnam era's tensions—between tradition and new possibilities, black and white, young and old, male and female—were played out on the field of professional and organized sports. SportsWars shows that the century-old position of sports as the standard-bearer for American values, and as a central way of building character, made it a prime target in this time of general disenchantment. (more …) "I loved it, loved almost every page. What I like most is the literary quality of the writing—and the rich cultural context and the wonderful stories. Bewitching, and perfectly crafted." —Randy Roberts "This is history served fresh, a wonderful read, unsentimental and smart, that opens windows on the sixties as well as on sports." —Robert Lipsyte, New York Times 2001, 192 pages, 22 black and white photos |
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Upon joining the training camp of superlightweight Billy Costello, Thomas Hauser was given unprecedented access to the fighter, his manager, and trainer as well as to the real heavyweights of the boxing world, promoter Don King, and World Boxing Council president Jose Sulaiman. The result, according to Playboy in their review of the original [1986], is a book that "explains why fighters fight, what they go through to win, and how they feel when they lose. It is a great book." (more …) "The Black Lights has become a boxing classic. It illuminates aspects of the boxing world generally unknown to outsiders, and is a wonderfully readable, judiciously proportioned book." —The New York Review of Books 2000, 272 pages |
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Heavy Justice is the inside story of one of the great courtroom battles of our time. Gregory Garrison, the special prosecutor in the case, and Randy Roberts, historian and eminent boxing scholar, recount the trial that put heavyweight champion Mike Tyson behind bars. With all the drama, verve, and procedural detail of a novel by John Grisham or Scott Turow, this is also a highly topical morality play touching on all the issues of sex, race, celebrity, and justice that now so perplex our society. (more …) "A pile-driving and relentless narrative that far transcends the usual "true" crime story. . . . What is told here . . . is nothing short of a heart-breaking American tragedy." —Gerald Early, author of Culture of Bruising: Essays on Prize-fighting, Literature, and Modern American Culture 2000, 336 pages, 18 illustrations |
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