Ringside: A Treasury of Boxing Reportage

By Budd Schulberg

Book Overview

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 portrait of Uncle Mike Jacobs, the impresario of boxing in its Golden Age; expertly places Joe Louis and Muhammad Ali in the social history of their times; brings fans up to date in the careers of the great names of recent decades-Tyson, Holyfield, DeLaHoya, Hopkins, Chico Corrales; and much more. His writing sparkles with authority and insight. Here is great prose on great fighters, laced with a realistic sense of boxing's wrongs as well as its rights. Publication of Ringside is an event in the world of sports reportage.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1566637074
• ISBN13: 9781566637077
• Release Date: October 2006
• Publisher: Ivan R. Dee Publisher
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

A T.K.O.

Budd Schulberg at ninety is still punching. In this collection of his boxing writing he brings us back to some of the most exciting moments in his long ring history. He concludes with a lengthy portrait of the famed boxing promoter Lew Jacobs. Schulberg is a real aficionado of the sport who knows it from inside. And those who love the sport will greatly enjoy the collection. Most touching in it is his concern for what happens to fighters after they leave the ring.