Kevin Mitchell

Jacobs Beach (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The story of New York in the Fifties-of Rat Pack cool and the fading of the Mob's glamour-brilliantly told through the prism of Madison Square Garden. New York in the Fifties was the most interesting and most vibrant city in the world. New York gave the world a couple of other things too: one bloody and brutal but the king of sports, the other simply bloody and brutal. The Fifties were boxing's last real heyday. Never again would the sport be so glamorous or so popular. And that's where New York's other gift to the world-the Mob-came in. Gangsters have been around for boxing's entire history, but this time it was special. Most of the decade's major fights took place at boxing's spiritual home, Madison Square Garden, and most of the deals that made or ruined the lives of the era's many fine fighters were done on a famous strip of pavement across the road from the Garden: Jacobs Beach. And the man ruling that strip of pavement was a charming Italian murderer called Frankie Carbo.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Simon + Schuster LLC
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Januar 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781681770277
• Artikelnr.: 58750558

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