Sporting Blood: Tales from the Dark Side of Boxing
Carlos Acevedo
- 06 september 2022
- 9781949590593
Samenvatting:
"This book may cement [Acevedo's] status as one of todays best boxing journalists."Kirkus Reviews
Boxing has one of the richest literary traditions in sports. From A. J.Liebling to Donald McRae, the sweet science has consistently inspired greatwriting. The work of Carlos Acevedo stands firmly in that distinguishedtradition.
In this expanded edition of Sporting Blood, Acevedo adds two new masterfulessaysone about the murder of Stanley Ketchel, the other about the ganglandslaying of Battling Sikito those that made his debut collection an instantclassic. Other highlights include a moving meditation on Muhammad Ali; apenetrating look at the enigmatic Charles Sonny Liston; and a vivid profileof Mike Tyson, which brilliantly conjures the Boy Kings late 1980s reign ofterror. Acevedo also offers many other unforgettable tales from boxings darkside, featuring Jack Johnson, Joe Frazier, Roberto Duran, Aaron Pryor, JakeLaMotta, and more.
Sporting Blood is a poetic throwback, a singular book that evokesjournalisms golden age and places Acevedo among the best sportswriters of hisgeneration.
Contents
Foreword: Thomas Hauser
1: A Ghost Orbiting Forever: Muhammad Ali 19422016
2: Fugitive Days: Jack Johnson in Exile
3: The Last Goodbye: Remembering the Rivalry Between Roberto Durán and Esteban De Jesús
4: Right on for the Darkness: On Aaron Pryor 19552016
5: The Catastrophist: The Troubled World of Don Jordan
6: Dark Sun: Remembering Joe Frazier
7: Strange Days: The Johnny Saxton Story
8: The Hurting Kind: Wilfredo Gomez vs. Lupe Pintor
9: Yesterday Will Make You Cry: The Short, Tragic Career of Davey Moore
10: Under Saturn: Johnny Tapia 19672012
11: Total Everything Now: Mike Tyson, 1988
12: The Windfall Factor: The Night Bert Cooper Almost Beat Evander Holyfield for the Heavyweight Title
13: Red Arrow: The Mysterious Death of Sonny Liston
14: The Dark Corner: The Furious Life of Jake LaMotta
15: A Young Old Man: The Tragic Life of Ad Wolgast
16: The Lightning Within: Tony Ayala, Jr.
17: No Exit: Eddie Machen
18: One Long Season in Hell: On Michael Dokes
19: Lightning Express: The Quick Rise and Even Quicker Fall of Al Singer
20: Live Forward, Learned Backward: Mike Quarry and the Quarry Curse
21: Leftover Life to Kill: Who Will Remember Carmelo Negron?
22. The Busy World: The Murder of Stanley Ketchel
23. Too Far from Home: Battling Siki Comes to America