Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight

Describes the circumstances behind Muhammad Ali's refusal to be drafted into the U.S. Army in 1966, stating that it violated his beliefs as a Black Muslim, and traces the subsequent five-year legal ba...

Ringside

In this bountiful collection of his best boxing writing of a lifetime, Mr. Schulberg takes his fans all the way back to an epic bare-knuckle contest in England two hundred years ago; draws a revealing...

A Neutral Corner

Fifteen previously unpublished boxing pieces written between 1952 and 1963.Demonstrating A.J. Liebling's abiding passion for the ''sweet science'' of boxing, A Neutral Corner brings together fifteen p...

The Great White Hopes

In 1908 black fighter Jack Johnson won the heavyweight championship of the world. There was an immediate storm of protest: it was predicted - accurately - that his reign would lead to civic unrest and...

Manly Art

From the legendary Irish Times columnist and award-winning veteran American sports journalist George Kimball, author of the bestselling Four Kings, comes this compilation of boxing-related commentary,...

Muhammad Ali Reader

From his status as Heavyweight Champion of the World to his ongoing battle with Parkinson's disease, Muhammad Ali is a celebrated icon known the world over for his athletic championships and his civic...

Automatic Ambition

The World Colored Heavyweight Championship, 1876-1937

For six decades the World Colored Heavyweight Championship was a useful tool of racial oppression--the existence of the title far more important to the white public than its succession of champions. I...

The Last Great Fight

Meticulously researched, wonderfully written; the untold story of a legendary fight and the two warriors who would never be the same againIt is considered by many to be the biggest upset in the histor...