Author: Adam J. PollackPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boxers (Sports)
Languages : en
Pages : 435
Book Description
In the Ring with James J. Corbett
Author: Adam J. PollackPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boxers (Sports)
Languages : en
Pages : 435
Book Description
In the Ring with James J. Corbett
Author: Adam J PollackPublisher:
ISBN: 9780979982255
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
This is the most thoroughly researched boxing-detailed biography of James J. Corbett's career ever written. It reveals new dates, bouts, and facts, shedding fresh light on his experience, skills, and ability. It meticulously describes his bouts and provides multiple viewpoints by local next-day newspapers, giving it unparalleled authenticity and accuracy. The exhaustive research provides an encyclopedic wealth of knowledge about Corbett's boxing career. His bouts are placed into social, legal, racial, and historic contexts, including anti-prize-fight laws and the color line. Corbett's complete career record is included, as well as 53 photos, 813 footnotes, a bibliography, and an index. Adam J. Pollack is the author of boxing biographies of John L. Sullivan, James J. Corbett, Bob Fitzsimmons, James J. Jeffries, Marvin Hart, and Tommy Burns. He is a member of the Boxing Writers Association of America, Cyberboxingzone.com, and is an attorney practicing in Iowa City, Iowa. Adam was a guest lecturer on the career of John L. Sullivan for the Whitehall lecture series at the Flagler Museum in Palm Beach, Florida, and also an interviewee in the documentary film on James J. Corbett, The Gentleman Prizefighter.
Gentleman Jim Corbett
Author: Patrick MylerPublisher: Robson Books Limited
ISBN: 9781861052124
Category : Boxers (Sports)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
9781861052124:Synopsis coming soon.......
In the Ring With Jack Dempsey - Part I
Author: Adam J PollackPublisher:
ISBN: 9781949783018
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 562
Book Description
In the Ring With Jack Dempsey - Part I: The Making of a Champion, by Adam J. Pollack is the most thorough and detailed book ever written about former world heavyweight champion Jack Dempsey. This book (the first of two) chronicles Dempsey's life and career from its start up to his winning the world heavyweight championship, fight by fight, as told by those who saw the contests and reported on them at the time, utilizing multiple local next-day newspaper reports. This includes training, predictions, pre-fight hype, and discussions about the opponents. As with other books in the In the Ring series, this book also discusses the context of the times, the color line and race in boxing and society (offering the perspectives of both white and black-owned newspapers), World War I, Dempsey's personal and managerial choices, and how these topics affected the sport and Dempsey's life and career. Even new facts about the controversial Jim Flynn fight are revealed. Boxing fans will obtain knowledge and insight into Jack Dempsey like never before. 560 pages, with over 550 rare photos, illustrations, cartoons, and fight advertisements. Adam J. Pollack's In the Ring With series on the heavyweight champions of the gloved era also includes books on John L. Sullivan, James J. Corbett, Bob Fitzsimmons, James J. Jeffries, Marvin Hart, Tommy Burns, and Jack Johnson. Adam J. Pollack is a boxing referee, judge, and member of the Boxing Writers Association of America. He also is an attorney practicing law in Iowa City, Iowa.
The Roar of the Crowd
Author: James John CorbettPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boxers (Sports)
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
James J. Corbett
Author: Armond FieldsPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786409096
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
When he died in 1933, James J. "Gentleman Jim" Corbett was honored by two distinguished groups of people: the professional boxing public, who celebrated him as America's greatest boxing champion, and the world of popular theater admirers, who revered him as one of Broadway's top vaudeville headliners. Corbett was uniquely instrumental in making boxing and popular theater both justifiable commercial enterprises, to be enjoyed by all classes of people. He became America's first national sports hero and went on to formulate the theater world's star system. This is the first definitive biography of the man who knocked out heavyweight champion John L. Sullivan, and who also knocked out audiences who flocked to see him in vaudeville and silent pictures. The focus herein is on the real man, the influences on his life, and the social and commercial environment within which he functioned. The author reveals that Corbett was a complex, driven, enigmatic man whose dedicated participation in popular entertainment changed American social values and mores, and at the same time reinvented the notion of a national hero.
James J. Corbett is the Champion of the World
Author: In the Ring with James J. Jeffries
Author: Adam J. PollackPublisher:
ISBN: 9780979982217
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 688
Book Description
Pollack describes in meticulous detail Jeffries' bouts from the 1890s up to 1905, his opponents, and his training regimen. He discusses the time's heavyweight scene, including contenders, pre-fight hype and negotiations, political and legal obstacles, and the color line.
Life and Battles of James J. Corbett
Author: Richard Kyle FoxPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boxers (Sports)
Languages : en
Pages : 67
Book Description
Life And Battles Of James J. Corbett, The Champion Pugilist Of The World
Author: Richard K. ]. [From Old Catalog] [FoxPublisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781016369305
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
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