Kevin Mitchell

Jacobs Beach

The Mob, the Garden and the Golden Age of Boxing

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Gangsters have always infected fight game. At the end of the First World War, through Prohibition, and into the 1930s, the Mob emerged as a poisonous force, threatening to ravage the sport. But it was only when cutthroat Madison Square Garden promoter Mike Jacobs, chieftain of a notorious patch of Manhattan pavement called "Jacobs Beach," stepped aside that the real devil appeared-former Murder, Inc. killer and underworld power broker Frankie Carbo, a man known to many simply as "Mr. Gray." And Carbo wasn't alone. Along with a crooked cast of characters that included a rich playboy and an urbane lawyer, he controlled boxing through most of the 1950s, with the help of a diabolical deputy, Francis "Blinky" Palermo, who did much of Mr. Gray's dirty work, reportedly drugging fighters and robbing them blind. Not until 1961, when Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy shipped Carbo and Palermo to jail for twenty-five years, did it all come crashing down. Enriched by the recollections of some of the men who were there, Kevin Mitchell's Jacobs Beach offers a gripping, noirish look at boxing and organized crime in postwar New York City-and reveals the fading glamour of both.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hamilcar Publications
• 2nd edition
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781949590029
• ISBN-10: 194959002X
• Artikelnr.: 54989700

Autorenporträt

Kevin Mitchell is the boxing and tennis correspondent for The Observer and The Guardian. He is the author of War, Baby, which was shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year, the co-author of Frank Bruno's autobiography Frank, which won the Best Autobiography category of the British Sports Book Awards, and author of Jacobs Beach: The Mob, the Garden and the Golden Age of Boxing (Hamilcar Publications 2019).

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword: Mike Stanton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. xi
1 The Beast Within . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . 1
2 The Ring Is Dead . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . 9
3 Never Far from Broadway . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15
4 Owney Madden and Lucky Jim . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . 29
5 Setting Up Joe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . .41
6 Distant Drums . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . 55
7 This Isle of Joy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . 65
8 Alone on Sugar Hill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
.. .89
9 The Cat in the Coonskin Hat . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . .. . .111
10 The Rise of the Rock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
.127
11 Sonny and the Mob . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
.145
12 The Slow Death of the IBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . 157
13 Long Live the King . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. .165
14 Teddy Atlas Knows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. .181
15 Sparring with Schulberg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. .
.187
16 Rocky Died in One of My Jackets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197
17 Lou Duva, a Fighter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . .217
18 A Couple of Artists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . .225
19 The Reckoning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . 237
Good Night, and Good Luck . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
245
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . 251