Boxing Books?

[Barnburner]

What boxing books from your collection would you recommend?

P.S - Has anyone read these books I'm thinking of getting, are they any good?
- The Killings of Stanley Ketchel
- Sam Langford: Boxings Greatest Uncrowned Champion
- The Fearless Harry Greb

P.S.S - What is the best Joe Louis book?

[Kid McCoy]

Originally Posted by Barnburner

What boxing books from your collection would you recommend?

P.S - Has anyone read these books I'm thinking of getting, are they any good?
- The Killings of Stanley Ketchel
- Sam Langford: Boxings Greatest Uncrowned Champion
- The Fearless Harry Greb

P.S.S - What is the best Joe Louis book?

The Greb and Langford books are a must. The Ketchel book is good but it's fictional, not a biography. I'd recommend In This Corner, full of very informative interviews with 40 or so world champions. Teddy Brenner's Only the Ring was Square is another good one.

[Barnburner]

Originally Posted by Kid McCoy

The Greb and Langford books are a must. The Ketchel book is good but it's fictional, not a biography. I'd recommend In This Corner, full of very informative interviews with 40 or so world champions. Teddy Brenner's Only the Ring was Square is another good one.

Thanks a lot, trying to get them at a good price, on amazon Greb book is £33 and Langford is £18(which is BS 'cause it was £13 last week)

[Great John L]

There is one book that I would definitely reccomend. It's new, just coming out in 2010 and its full name is:

"The Legend of Muhammad Ali: Images and Memorabilia of the Greatest Boxer of the twentieth century." It's a Barnes and Noble exclusive costing about $25. It has many photos that have never been shown, and it has reproductions of different memorabilia. It ahs reproduction pennants from the Thrilla in Manila, a Tale of the Tape sheet of the first Ali-Liston fight, some fight tickets, and even the court papers from Ali's Vietnam case and many others. They come in these nice cases at the end of each chapter. It was written by Thomas Hauser, who has wrote numerous Boxing books, including Muhammad Ali: His Life and Times and Muhammad Ali" In Perspective.

Other good reads are
Champion: Joe Louis. Black Hero in White America.
Unforgiveable Blackness
Dempsey
Muhammad Ali: is Life and Times
Bad Intentions: The Mike Tyson Story

[sonnyboyx2]

A pictorial history of boxing - sam andre & nat fleischer

[Barnburner]

Originally Posted by sonnyboyx2

A pictorial history of boxing - sam andre & nat fleischer

Read that, got it from my local library. Good book.

[Heavy Bag]

I've read both the Greb & Langford books, and reccomend them both.

Here's a few other I'd reccomend
-Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson by Geoffrey Ward
-Barney Ross (Jewish Encounters) by Douglas Century
-Larry Holmes Against The Odds
-Men Of Steel Middleweights

[Barnburner]

Originally Posted by Heavy Bag

I've read both the Greb & Langford books, and reccomend them both.

Here's a few other I'd reccomend
-Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson by Geoffrey Ward
-Barney Ross (Jewish Encounters) by Douglas Century
-Larry Holmes Against The Odds
-Men Of Steel Middleweights

Unforgivable Blackness is a great book that I am nearly finished.
The Middleweights one sounds good.

[Heavy Bag]

Originally Posted by Barnburner

Unforgivable Blackness is a great book that I am nearly finished.
The Middleweights one sounds good.

Yeah, Unforgivable Blackness is a awesome read.

And yeah, I would most certainly reccomend Men Of Steel, it takes you thorugh all the Middleweights Champions and Era's in great detail up until 93 (In which year the book was wrote)

[Wild Blue Yonda]

Have you read Four Kings? I very much enjoyed that one.