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-- Twelve greatest rounds of boxingc2003., Sport Classic Books Call No: 796.83 Pac Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Profiles twelve of the best fights in the history of boxing and provides behind-the-scenes information for each of them.
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2007., Ecco Call No: B Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)View cover image provided by Mackin Summary Note: A first-hand account by boxing trainer and commentator Teddy Atlas focusing on his years as a juvenile delinquent, as a boxer, and as a Golden Gloves champion. Also provides information on his memories of trainer and choreographer Twyla Tharp and his brief acting career. Includes several black-and-white photographs.
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2010., Roaring Brook Press Call No: 796.83092 Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Art and poetry combine to tell the story of boxer Jack Johnson, who became the first African-American world heavyweight boxing champion in the early part of the twentieth century.
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2019., Roaring Brook Press Call No: 796.83 FLORIO Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: America’s black boxing champion. Hitler’s favorite athlete. And a world at war. Joe Louis was born on an Alabama cotton patch and raised in a Detroit ghetto. Max Schmeling grew up in poverty in Hamburg, Germany. For both boys, boxing was a way out and a way up. Little did they know someday they would face each other in a pair of battles that would capture the imagination of the world.In America, Joe was a symbol of hope to a nation of blacks yearning to participate in the American dream. In Germany, Max was made to symbolize the superiority of the Aryan race. The two men climbed through the ropes with the weight of their countries on their shoulders—and only one would leave victorious. The battles waged between Joe and Max still resonate today. War in the Ring is the story of these two outsized heroes, their lives, their careers, and the global conflict swirling around them.