Author: Mickey WalkerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boxers (Sports)
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Mickey Walker, the Toy Bulldog and His Times
Author: Mickey WalkerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boxers (Sports)
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Toy Bulldog
Author: John JarrettPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476601348
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
This is a cradle-to-grave biography of Mickey Walker, former welterweight (1922-1926) and middleweight champion (1926-1931) of the world, one of the greatest fighters in ring history. He fought at a time when boxing was a major sport with only eight championships, and he held two of them over a nine-year period. He fought at a time when each weight division was jammed with good fighters, and he fought them all from welterweight up to heavyweight, frequently being outweighed 20 to 30 pounds. Walker was also a great personality who loved life and lived it to the fullest. He was married seven times to four different women, and he cavorted with movie stars and mobsters. When his boxing career ended in 1935, Walker ran saloons in various locations and eventually became an artist of some standing. He died in 1981 at age 79.
Mickey Walker, the Toy Bulldog and His Times
Author: Mickey WalkerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boxers (Sports)
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Toy Bulldog
Author: John JarrettPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786470402
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
This is a cradle-to-grave biography of Mickey Walker, former welterweight (1922-1926) and middleweight champion (1926-1931) of the world, one of the greatest fighters in ring history. He fought at a time when boxing was a major sport with only eight championships, and he held two of them over a nine-year period. He fought at a time when each weight division was jammed with good fighters, and he fought them all from welterweight up to heavyweight, frequently being outweighed 20 to 30 pounds. Walker was also a great personality who loved life and lived it to the fullest. He was married seven times to four different women, and he cavorted with movie stars and mobsters. When his boxing career ended in 1935, Walker ran saloons in various locations and eventually became an artist of some standing. He died in 1981 at age 79.
Lloyd Hamilton
Author: Anthony BalducciPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476650888
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
At first glance, Lloyd Hamilton was a large, baby-faced comic who walked like a duck. To the trained eye, Hamilton demonstrated keen timing and an inventive mind, providing wry humor rich in emotion during his 20 year career. Perhaps most importantly, Hamilton was greatly admired by his fellow comics, receiving praise from the likes of Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton. This book explores Hamilton's life and work, beginning with his conservative, middle-class childhood and continuing through the comic's entry into show business as a theatre extra, his most memorable role as half of silent comedy's "Ham and Bud" duo, and his first feature film, The Darker Self. The author examines Hamilton's private life and alcoholism and the decline of his health and career, which led to his death at the age of 43. The book includes exclusive photographs from the Hamilton family, a filmography with detailed plot descriptions, many behind-the-scenes facts, and an analysis of Hamilton's critical lost feature film A Self-Made Failure.
Jack Dempsey
Author: Randy RobertsPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252071485
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
A biography of Jack Dempsey, Heavyweight Champion of the World from 1919-1926.
New York Times Saturday Book Review Supplement
Author: Battling Siki
Author: Peter BensonPublisher: University of Arkansas Press
ISBN: 9781557288882
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Battling Siki (1887–1925) was once one of the four or five most recognizable black men in the world and was written about by a host of great writers, including George Bernard Shaw, Ring Lardner, Damon Runyon, Janet Flanner, and Ernest Hemingway. Peter Benson’s lively biography of the first African to win a world championship in boxing delves into the complex world of sports, race, colonialism, and the cult of personality in the early twentieth century.
The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives
Author: Arnie MarkoePublisher: Charles Scribner's Sons
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
Contains biographies of active and retired athletes, living or dead, plus media personalities, coaches, and administrators.
Rothstein
Author: David PietruszaPublisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 0465029396
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 530
Book Description
History remembers Arnold Rothstein as the man who fixed the 1919 World Series, an underworld genius. The real-life model for The Great Gatsby's Meyer Wolfsheim and Nathan Detroit from Guys and Dolls, Rothstein was much more -- and less -- than a fixer of baseball games. He was everything that made 1920s Manhattan roar. Featuring Jazz Age Broadway with its thugs, speakeasies, showgirls, political movers and shakers, and stars of the Golden Age of Sports, this is a biography of the man who dominated an age. Arnold Rothstein was a loan shark, pool shark, bookmaker, thief, fence of stolen property, political fixer, Wall Street swindler, labor racketeer, rumrunner, and mastermind of the modern drug trade. Among his monikers were "The Big Bankroll," "The Brain," and "The Man Uptown." This vivid account of Rothstein's life is also the story of con artists, crooked cops, politicians, gang lords, newsmen, speakeasy owners, gamblers and the like. Finally unraveling the mystery of Rothstein's November 1928 murder in a Times Square hotel room, David Pietrusza has cemented The Big Bankroll's place among the most influential and fascinating legendary American criminals. 16 pages of black-and-white photographs are featured.