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As a Boxer breeder for many years I give this book to new.......2003-04-24
I have been breeding Boxers for over 15 years and I only give out this boxer book to clients. It is written by a man who knows and lives with boxers and has for many years. He breeds and shows and has a great record and reputation. I tell all my clients that this is the only boxer book they will ever need.
Nice book for boxer novices.......2001-06-30
Our family was looking into the breed to research if Boxers were for us. This book was helpful and the information was clear. I also ordered Boxers - A complete Pet Owner's Manual by BARRONS. When both arrived together in the mail I was more inclined to pick up the book by Barrons first. The photos were more inticing and the layout and text was less inhibiting. I found myself picking up the book by Richard Tomita after I completed Barrons book. I would have to say I gathered information from both. If I could only select one - I would select Barrons.
Every Person owned by a Boxer should own this book........1999-06-02
This book, having been written by a breeder, tells you alot about the breed. It is full of valuable information, that can be used everyday. The pictures are great, along with the complete background about the breed. Thanks for a wonderful book.
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Beetle-browed, nearly bald, a head that rode his collarbones like a bowling ball returning on rails, his waist size more than half his five-foot-eight height, Two Ton Tony Galento appeared nearly square, his legs two broomsticks jammed into a vertical hay bale. By all measures he stood no chance when he stepped into the ring against the Brown Bomber, Joe Louis, the finest heavyweight of his generation, in Yankee Stadium on a June night in 1939. “I’ll moida da bum,” Galento predicted, and though Louis was no bum, Tony, the Falstaff of boxing, lifted him from the canvas with a single left hook and entered the record books as one of the few men to put the great Louis down. A palooka, a thug, a vibrant appetite of a man, he scrapped his way out of the streets and into the brightest light in American life. For two splendid seconds he stood on the canvas at Yankee Stadium, the great Joe Louis stretched out before him, champ of the world, the toughest man alive, the mythical hero of the waterfront, of Orange, New Jersey, of an American nation little more than a year away from war. Joe Monninger’s spellbinding portrait of a man, a moment, and an era reminds us that sometimes it is through effort, and not the end result, that people most enduringly define themselves.
Customer Reviews:
A thrilling story, a great read, an instant classic.......2007-05-17
Boxing isn't really my thing, but I can't resist a good, well-written story. Joe Monninger's sharp, clear prose draws the reader back in time and deep into the drama of two men's lives, each both very ordinary and very special - almost mythological. It's tough not to find something of yourself in both, and impossible not to be pulled along by this engaging story of one night and one fight. Buy it. Read it.
The Dual-Biography Packs A One-Two Punch.......2007-01-12
With two left hooks in two different rounds on June 28, 1939, in Yankee Stadium, "Two Ton" Tony Galento made a lasting name for himself in boxing history. In the first round, Galento momentarily staggered heavyweight champion Joe Louis and in the third stanza Louis suffered a flash knockdown.
But in the 11 minutes of action - with Galento getting knocked-out in the fourth round - Louis delivered a battering for personal reasons.
Author Joseph Monninger delivers an outstanding dual-biography, along with an excellent history of the era, which are surrounded by the lead-up to the fight, vivid descriptions of the match and the aftermath for both fighters.
And sports - as always - is a mirror-relection of society. Galento's race-baiting of Louis included late-night phone calls to the champion at his Pompton Lakes, New Jersey, training camp. Galento would rant about Louis's race & manhood, along with making sexual references about Louis's wife, Marva.
Galento publicly boasted that Louis must have had "loaded" boxing gloves - where hard metal objects are taped onto the fighter's knuckles - for the second Max Schmeling fight, when Louis dismantled Schmeling in the first round. He also bragged that he viewed something in the first Schmeling match - that Louis lost by knockout - that proved to him the champion would quit the fight when Galento used his shrewd strategy.
In what I consider comparable with Muhammad Ali's anger with Ernie Terrell before the February 6, 1967, fight in the Houston Astrodome - before the match, Terrell continually referred to Ali as Cassius Clay and Ali then pounded Terell for 15 rounds, while taunting, "What's my name" - Louis delivered a terrible beating to Galento.
Louis went on to be recognized as one of the greatest heavyweight champions ever, while Galento fought several more times, went into professional wrestling - several times being matched against former heavyweight boxing champ Primo Carnera - had a few parts in movies, but essentially made a career out of his less than four rounds with Louis.
The one drawback is when Monninger references fighter Battling Siki. He perpetuates the false history of how Siki won the light-heavyweight championship and other biographical material. Peter Benson's book, Battling Siki, provides an accurate portrayal of that fighter's life.
While not a memorable bout by any standards, Monninger admirably demonstrates that history can be richly chronicled from the ringside seat.
Good boxing book.......2007-01-05
Excellent book about a boxer on the Joe Louis bum of the month tour.
Galento looked and acted like a clown but he knocked down the greatest fighter of his era and the cover picture proves it.
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tough kid with a heart of gold, Bummy grew up in the streets of Brownsville, New York on the fringes of the Jewish mob during the 20's and 30's-thanks to his older brother, a feared racketeer. But as much as he resisted the underworld of Murder, Inc. by becoming a championship fighter and a Browns-ville hero, he never did escape the Jewish mob's shadow. Though he repeatedly stood up to mob kingpins like Abe Reles, Bummy suffered a spectacular fall from grace as a result of a smear campaign by the press. Capturing a unique place and time in history, Bummy Davis vs. Murder, Inc. redeems a tragic hero who fought the pull of one of the most brutal groups of killers to grace the twentieth century.
Customer Reviews:
A refresher for a 89 year old.......2007-08-16
The authur Ron Ross is at his best. I could not stop reading amd I recommended the book to all my sons.I lived in East New york during those days.Fascinating.
Harry Keller
Classic factional story about the Mob and a boxer.......2007-05-07
Fantastic account of the life and career of Al 'Bummy' Davis, during the time of Mob rule in New York. Fascinating look into the ways and troubles of immigrant communities and their exploitation by gangsters.
Whether you are looking for a boxing or mafia book, this will do the job.
A Must Read.......2007-03-30
For anyone who loves a good story, written with wit, humor, and style, this book is for you. I couldn't put it down, and found something to chuckle about or a phrase to admire or an ironic comment I loved at least once on each page. I finished the book today (March 29, 2007)and did something I never did before (and I am 80 year's old). I noted from the book jacket that the author divides his time between Oceanside, LI and Boca Raton, Fl, and even though it is 4 years since the book was written and the author's name is a relatively common one, I called information for his Boca Raton number and took a chance that it was the right Ron Ross. I left a message that if this Ron Ross was an author, would he please call me, and I left my number. A few hours later I received a call from Mr. Ross and we had a delightful conversation for 10 minutes or so. For me to have taken the time to locate Mr. Ross and call him is an example that actions speak louder than words. Believe my action and go out and buy, read, enjoy, and love the book. It's cheap enough, and you'll thank me, and more so, will thank Ron Ross.
Ed Gold
A Masterpiece About One Tough Jew.......2005-10-14
Ron Ross masterfully recreates the world of the "Brownsville Bum"-which is how WC Heinz referred to Albert Davidoff in his
well known sports story.Ross takes Bummy-who Ring Magazine rated 54th of boxing's 100 best lb. for lb. punchers of all time-to
the next level,in quite possibly the best "factional novel" ever
written-at least about boxing,gangsters and Brownsville,Brooklyn
in a world that dramatically changed in 1945,when Bummy's life ended trying to prevent a bar holdup with his fists.And Davis
also didn't take any crap from Murder Incorporated either;Ross
beautifully recreates the scene in which the leaders of Murder
Inc. drive up to Davis after a fight they lost money on-and Davis drops his gym bag,ready to kayo all of them in the street;this showdown finally gave people the courage to testify against Murder Incorporated in court.The final bar showdown-if this gets to the movies-could be the best final showdown in movie history;I'm looking forward to it.
A Terrific Read; Americana at its Best.......2004-06-23
An enjoyable and engrossing examination of a unique confluence of time, place, and people ... Eastern European Jewish immigrants, their first-generation-American children, the Great Depression, Brownsville NY, and the crime Syndicate born of Prohibition.
Ron Ross recreates a world of candy stores, pushcart vendors, tenement apartments, petty thugs, corner gyms, notorious gangsters, and the struggle for life and dignity admist poverty, crime, and prejudice. Vivid, colorful, and often humorous, it's also grim, unblinking, and heart rending.
A great book for students of Jewish-American history, for boxing enthusiasts, for organized crime buffs, and for those who simply appreciate a great story.
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He Was a Fallen Son of Winslow Could He Ever Reclaim His Heritage?
Barney Winslow had walked away from his family with a bitterness and a rage that well fit a prizefighter. He had never measured up to his father's expectations and long ago he'd lost hope of being the person his brother was. He only wished they'd stayed in their own nice little world and leave him alone.
Barney had come to believe the promises of the prize ring. If he let the rage out with his hands, he'd have all the money and women he wanted. Just a couple more wins and he's have his shot at the title. If he only could control his drinking, he'd be the hero of New York City in 1894.
When the prodigal reaps what he has sown, who will hold out a hand to him? How can he undo the hurt he has inflicted on the innocent saloon girl, Katie Sullivan? How might a wasted life find hope?
The Prizefighter's Ultimate Challenge a Confrontation on Another Continent With an Adversary He Had Not Dreamed Even Existed.
Customer Reviews:
Still the Best.......2003-11-04
After having read up to #29, I just reread "The Final Adversary", and it is still the Best of the House of Winslow series in my book.
AWESOME!!!.......1999-02-18
This is one of the best books in the series! I just got it yesterday and I've already finished it. Gilbert Morris is one of the best fiction writers around today.
great author! should limit his series.......1998-01-27
I love to read books by Gilbert Morris but I stoped reading this series because it was becoming to repetative. This book should of been the final book! I haven't given up on Morris, I still read his other series.
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- wow
- Perhaps the best work of the great Harry Crews.
- Over the top, yes, but for good reason.
- unbelievable and self-indulgent
- freaks, fighters, and moral struggles to survive
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The Knockout Artist: A Novel
Harry Crews
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wow.......2006-04-16
Crews is such a fine writer. Spare, Smart, Willing to look at people that others turn away from. His prose is on par with Jim Thompson or Chester Himes. It ain't pretty, but it is true and engaging.
Perhaps the best work of the great Harry Crews........2005-03-10
I am a huge Harry Crews fan. No one writes quite like this hyperrealistic gothic southern writer, and no one can create such bizarre characters in so few pages. Indeed, I have read "The Knockout Artist" several times, and always get something different out of it. As always, Crews concerns himself with the larger questions in life, especially how to maintain one's moral compass in a surreal amoral world (here its New Orleans), but he also creates characters as compelling as one can find in late 20th century fiction. You will root for the main character and never forget those that he meets along the way.
To address one of the other reviews, in Crews' world, it is hardly surprising that there are people who would pay handsomely to see someone knock himself unconscious. I am sure that in the underbelly of any major city, (which certainly would include New Orleans!) there are those who have desires far stranger than this.
I urge you to read this book. If you like it, run out and buy "A Feast of Snakes," which is just as good.
Over the top, yes, but for good reason........2003-01-04
Sometimes to satirize one must approach the extreme, venture into the unbelievable or explore the ridiculous. I'm sorry one of the reviewers failed to grasp this. The Knockout Artist is one of the finest pieces of fiction ever written by a contemporary American author. It grabs at the heartstrings and yanks them out of tune, then proceeds to play Mariachi in dropped D tuning.
I laughed, I cried,....
In seriousness, Harry Crews is going to be one of those authors who will be taught in college courses fifty years from now, well after he's dead and gone. We are fortunate to be living at the same time as a legend.
unbelievable and self-indulgent.......2000-10-23
Are we really supposed to believe that the main character is acutally paid money to knock himself out as a public spectacle?
I admit, I gave up on this book part way through. I got bogged down in one of the many lavish discriptions of New Orleans banquet food, and gave up. The book seems to have been written as a prank against the reader.
This book is out of print for good reason, in my opinion.
freaks, fighters, and moral struggles to survive.......1996-09-23
when all you have is one occupation, one talent, one desire and your denied the "glory" of being at the top you settle for what pays your bills. talents big and small can be made into a capital gaining venture but when you lose some bit of respect for yourself what is that you really have left
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For many years, New York City was considered to be the fight capital of the world." Local venues put on shows almost daily, and the mecca of boxing, Madison Square Garden, hosted boxing regularly. Fans flocked from one arena to the other to catch all of the action. New York City's Greatest Boxers is a photographic journey featuring over 180 photographs showcasing many of the outstanding boxers who helped make up the city's colorful history. New York City's biggest boxing stars are all found here, from legendary champions like Terry McGovern and Benny Leonard to local stars and celebrities like Joe Miceli, Tiger Jones, and Tony Danza."
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Lenda Viva.......2000-08-25
EU acredito ser este livro de grandes ensinamentos partindo de John Galbraith, lenda do penamento econômico
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The Boxer
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In the Lower East Side tenements of Manhattan in the late 1800s, there is employment for the city's huge immigrant population--except it's mostly sweatshop labor for little pay. Fifteen-year-old Johnny Woods is desperate to find enough work to support his fatherless family. When he notices a sign in a bar window asking for young men to try their fighting skills, he investigates, hoping to win the five dollar prize. He is unluckily arrested during his first fight, but ironically his luck turns when he meets former lightweight champion Michael O'Shaunnessey in jail. O'Shaunnessey recognizes Johnny's raw talent and begins training him as a serious boxer.
Once out of the clink, Johnny is winning fights, working regularly in the posh uptown New York Athletic Club, and saving money for a new home for his family in Brooklyn. But then Johnny's winning concentration is shot with the return of his alcoholic father. Does he have the stamina to continue as the family breadwinner, confront his father, and still win in the ring? A Rocky for the late 19th century, The Boxer is a good solid story with plenty of heart. Author Kathleen Karr (The Great Turkey Walk) gives Johnny an engaging first person voice: "The mind was a muscle, like any other.... But how you exercised it diagramming sentences ... hadn't dawned on me yet." His troubles with money and family will ring true with contemporary teens, while the historical setting will delight teachers, who will surely want to recommend this book as supplemental reading when teaching about the urban industrial age. (Ages 11 to 15) --Jennifer Hubert
Book Description
Hard-hitting historical fiction
Ever since his father ran off two years before, fifteen-year-old Johnny Woods has struggled to help support his ma and five siblings, sacrificing his own schooling in the process. Still, there's been hardly enough money each month to make the rent, and Johnny's dream of a house in Brooklyn, away from the tenement slums, is out of reach.
Then Johnny discovers boxing. He is a natural-born fighter, with street smarts, determination, and an explosive uppercut. Although boxing is illegal in 1885 New York, Johnny powers his way through every obstacle, believing he has found the means to raise himself and his family out of poverty. But as he moves closer to his biggest fight yet, Johnny must reconcile his need to help his loved ones with a sharpening desire to achieve something outside the ring, starting with his education. In bringing to life Johnny's struggle and ultimate success, Kathleen Karr offers readers a compelling portrait of an appealing young champion.
Customer Reviews:
Boxer.......2007-03-03
In this book, Boxer by Kathleen Karr, Johnny the main character goes to prison, meets a man there when he is at prison. The man he meets at the prison is willing to teach him how to box. This man's name is O'Shaunnessey and will teach him how to box very well. O'shaunnessy trains Johnny hard for months. He teaches Johnny to jab left two times, then a right jab once. O'Shaunnessy says to Johnny that he is ready to fight someone in a boxing match. Johnny is about to fight Skelly, the thief who is a good boxer. Skelly is beating down on Johnny really badly. Johnny is trying to hit Skelly but he can't, he finally hits Skelly in the jaw and knocks him out cold and wins the match. Johnny is set free of prison and is going home. Johnny is out of prison and is going home to his family. His mom is so happy when he comes. If you like what I said and also want to know more about the story and the ending then read the book Boxer.
A wonderful work of historical fiction.......2004-11-25
This is the story of a young man living in the slums of New York in the 1880's. John Aloysius Xavier Woods, or Johnny, has had a hard life. Having several siblings, a mother, and no father, Johnny has to work in a sweatshop all day for a disgustingly small amount of money. However, one day he decides to take a chance at illegal boxing, for the winner receives a good sum of money. Instead, he gets arrested during his first try and sent to jail for six months. It is there that he meets Michael O'Shaunnessey, a professional boxer. O'Shaunnessey sees lots of potential in Johnny, and Johnny agrees to let himself be trained. The rich O'Shaunnessey meanwhile sends money to Johnny's family to support them. After leaving jail, Johnny manages to use his newfound skills legally in a boxing club. Soon, Johnny manages to become the lightweight champion under the guidance of O'Shaunnessey. I think that this is a really good book, it is exciting and has a continuing plotline without boring lulls. It illustrates the image of life in the poorer sections of the America a century ago very well.
I think that this story was an excellent illustration of how the times shape the individual. Johnny was working for a miniscule amount of money in the sweatshops. However, because he wanted more for himself in life, he decided to attempt boxing. Johnny would receive 5 dollars a day for every 4 rounds of boxing he won, which was much more than he made usually. Later on, after he gets out of prison, Johnny makes the decision that he will not return to the sweatshops. He strives to become a better boxer, which will then earn him more money to finally buy a better life in Brooklyn. The times for Johnny, which are poor and desolate times, force him to find a means of improving him and his family's conditions. The environment that Johnny lives in shapes him into a different individual than he would've been if he had lived in different circumstances.
Wow........2004-04-02
Usually i do not like reading books. Being in 10th grade i guess that applies to everyone. Well, i found this book, and i read it in one day. It was that good. Mrs. Karr is able to keep the story very interesting with many turningpoints. Johnny ends up going from a sweatshop worker eating cabbage every day, to being a lightwieght boxing champion, and having steak and other great foods almost everyday. If you are like me, where you usually do not like reading books, this book would be great for you.
A Definite Contender.......2002-04-27
Kathleen Karr's THE BOXER is a great story about a young man who makes his own way in the world and reaches for dreams that he would have never dared if life hadn't forced him to succeed. Fifteen-year old Johnny Woods dropped out of school and started working 12-hour days in a sweatshop ironing clothes to help his mother support his five younger siblings. His dad ran out on them a long time ago. But the money Johnny makes hardly puts a dent in the mounting bills the struggling family faces. Then, one night, he reads an ad on Brodie's Saloon about a boxing match. Whoever wins the boxing match receives a five-dollar prize purse. In 1885 New York City's Lower East Side, five dollars is a month's rent. Johnny signs up, gets his first bout and may be on his way to winning his first match, then gets arrested by the New York City Police. In 1885, prize-fighting was illegal, especially the way the sport was run in Brodie's Saloon. Sentenced to six months in jail, Johnny figures out he's got to change his life, and he finds the man to help him do it. Michael O'Shaunnessey, called Perfessor by those who know him, was a boxer and fight manager, and he begins training young Johnny. Using his wits, his muscle, and his courage, Johnny begins the transformation that will forever alter his life and the lives of those around him.
An author of a number of books, Kathleen Karr apparently loves to blend her fiction with history and real people. Other books she's written include SKULLDUGGERY (a story about a young boy helping a well-meaning grave robber practice his trade), THE GREAT TURKEY WALK (the tale of a boy herding turkeys to Denver, and the book was on the Best Book of the Year lists by SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL and PUBLISHER'S WEEKLY), and the Petticoat Party series (books about young girls going West on a wagon train. Her heroines and heroes are always well-done and draw readers into their problems and into the stories.
THE BOXER is an excellent tale and a fantastic read. The author brings images of late 19th century New York City's slum areas and lifestyles into view for young readers without hitting them over the head with history. She doesn't describe the events like they're history. She presents Johnny's world as it is and as he sees it. Of course, many readers will note the difference between then and now, but Karr leaves that up to the reader rather than drawing special importance to those facts. Karr's ear for dialogue, both internal in the first-person point of view and in the conversations between the characters, is true to life, but written so that the words on the page pass amazingly quick. She keeps up a rapid pace that encourages young readers to keep turning page. The focus she maintains on the family, and Johnny's growing vision of the family's plight and what he can do about it, is fantastic. Johnny is a great hero, but remains very human in the reader's view.
The only thing that needed a little more attention was the last fight. Karr builds the readers up to an all-or-nothing finish, yet the final showdown is somehow anti-climatic. However, the interweaving of the Perfessor's knowing remarks with scenes from the battle in progress are nicely done.
Anyone interested in getting a glimpse of the past through the eyes of a hero with a great heart will enjoy this book. Readers that like fiction that is fast-paced and filled with dialogue will blaze through this story. In addition to an enjoyable read, readers will make a new friend and gain a mentor in Johnny Woods, inside and outside the boxing ring. THE BOXER is a fun read, and the book is emotionally uplifting.
The Boxer.......2002-03-21
"The Boxer" was an okay book with not a whole lot of a knockout ending. Johnny Woods a lower class kid living in the tenements of Manhattan in the 1800's is supporting his family after his father leaves 3 years earlier. Johnny is walking home from the sweatshop one night, and stops at Brodie's Saloon where they offer boxing to anyone, and the winner wins five dollars. When Johnny is fighting, the saloon is raided by the police Johnny ends up with a sentence of 6 months in prison. When in prison he meets the "Professor" Michael O'Shaunessy. Michael offers to train him in prison and continue to train him when they get out of prison at his Upper East Side New York Athletic Club. When Johnny gets out he is surprised with the return of his father. He now must concentrate on fights and his family. This was an overall okay book. I expected a better ending then what was given.
Book Description
Combining the artistry of photographer Delilah Montoya with an informative introduction written by professor and librarian María Teresa Márquez, Women Boxers: The New Warriors explores the world of las malcriadas, those women who challenge society's views of femininity, violence, and physicality.
Montoya's photographs profile twelve powerful, devoted athletes who are taking advantage of the Women's Movement and the right to live, work, and box in a man's world. The boxers featured are from all over the United States, and include super bantamweight Jackie Chávez, holder of the IFBA Super Bantamweight Title, light middleweight Akondaye "Storm" Fountain, welterweight Christy "Coalminer's Daughter" Martin, and lightweight Mia "The Knockout" St. John, holder of the IBA Women's Lightweight Title and the IFBA Lightweight World Title.
The introductory essay succinctly traces the phenomenon of women boxers, noting that as early as 1728 boxing matches between women were reported in London newspapers. Since 1997, women's amateur boxing competitions have been held in Europe, Africa, and Asia; countries such as Egypt, India and Kazakhstan are among 28 countries represented in women's boxing organizations. And women's amateur boxing may be sanctioned soon for the first time as an Olympic sport.
In spite of the increased popularity of women's boxing, it remains controversial. Many still believe that women boxers are simply women who make a living by selling their bodies. Women boxers struggle to get televised matches and suitable prize money, and many boxing promoters refuse to support fights between female boxers.
With an essay by C. Ondine Chavoya tracing Montoya's artistic career, this is a rare and fascinating look at the sport of women's boxing.
Customer Reviews:
Great book on an underreported sports.......2007-06-12
Great action photographs; much needed recording of the lives of these under the radar athletes
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