Your Favorite Boxing Book

[physiker]

Not sure if this has been done here before. Unlike the boxing movie thread--see below.

What is the best book on boxing or a boxer that you've read?

I read Raging Bull some years ago. It was a good read about a bad man.

I've posted that it has much more about LaMotta, than is in the film. And most of it is not good!

[physiker]

We can include "illustrated, short, softcover books."

[AddiX]

Body and soul is one of the best boxing books I've read by far. Highly recommend to anyone who has boxed in an inner city gyms or can relate to it.

[Rockin']

Beyond the Ring - Easily the most in depth, accurate and in your face book ever written about the game................Rockin'

[S.G.]

Flesh and Blood (Pete Hamill)
Rope Burns (F.X. Toole)
Shadow Boxer (Chris Lynch)
This Bloody Mary (Jonathan Rendall)
The Professional (W.C. Heinz)
The Sweet Science (A.J. Liebling)

...and it's not strictly a book about boxing, but the best book with a boxer for a protagonist would be James Ellroy's The Black Dahlia (actually, all of his works are scattered with boxing references).

[Rockin']

Flesh and Blood (Pete Hamill)
Rope Burns (F.X. Toole)
Shadow Boxer (Chris Lynch)
This Bloody Mary (Jonathan Rendall)
The Professional (W.C. Heinz)
The Sweet Science (A.J. Liebling)

...and it's not strictly a book about boxing, but the best book with a boxer for a protagonist would be James Ellroy's The Black Dahlia (actually, all of his works are scattered with boxing references).

This Bloody Mary is The Last Thing I own was a cool book.

I liked The Power of One aswell...............Rockin'

[physiker]

Flesh and Blood (Pete Hamill)
Rope Burns (F.X. Toole)
Shadow Boxer (Chris Lynch)
This Bloody Mary (Jonathan Rendall)
The Professional (W.C. Heinz)
The Sweet Science (A.J. Liebling)

...and it's not strictly a book about boxing, but the best book with a boxer for a protagonist would be James Ellroy's The Black Dahlia (actually, all of his works are scattered with boxing references).

Thanks people.

Correct me if I am wrong.

Was Rope Burns the book of stories from which Million$ Baby was derived?

And The Black Dahlia (at least the news story) was about the murder of the young woman/starlet?

[S.G.]

Thanks people.

Correct me if I am wrong.

Was Rope Burns the book of stories from which Million$ Baby was derived?

And The Black Dahlia (at least the news story) was about the murder of the young woman/starlet?

Yeah & yeah.

[MonsieurGeorges]

Flesh and Blood (Pete Hamill)
Rope Burns (F.X. Toole)
Shadow Boxer (Chris Lynch)
This Bloody Mary (Jonathan Rendall)
The Professional (W.C. Heinz)
The Sweet Science (A.J. Liebling)

...and it's not strictly a book about boxing, but the best book with a boxer for a protagonist would be James Ellroy's The Black Dahlia (actually, all of his works are scattered with boxing references).

The Professional is a great book

I really enjoyed Unforgivable Blackness by Geoffrey C. Ward. I've read tons of books about America in the early 1900s but this book really makes that era come to life. Even if I wasn't huge into boxing, one of the best books I've ever read

[physiker]

Flesh and Blood (Pete Hamill)
Rope Burns (F.X. Toole)
Shadow Boxer (Chris Lynch)
This Bloody Mary (Jonathan Rendall)
The Professional (W.C. Heinz)
The Sweet Science (A.J. Liebling)

...and it's not strictly a book about boxing, but the best book with a boxer for a protagonist would be James Ellroy's The Black Dahlia (actually, all of his works are scattered with boxing references).

Thanks for oyurother reply.

A few more Q's.

Since you read the book, I wonder how you rate the movie--Million$ Baby in comparisonto the short story?

Is the Pete Hamill book really what is implied in what I found about mother and son?

I looked up you rother books listed if I didn't know them.