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« Reply #30 on: December 07, 2009, 06:36:31 PM » |
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Tales from the 5th Street Gym: Ali, the Dundees, and Miami's Golden Age of Boxing (Hardcover) Ferdie Pacheco (Mar 2010)  In its forty-year existence, the 5th Street Gym housed the training grounds for three of the greatest fighters the sport has ever known - Muhammad Ali, George Foreman, and Sugar Ray Leonard - and became the locus for a grand total of fourteen world champions. The site was also a magnet for a wide range of international celebrities including Joe Louis, Rocky Marciano, Jackie Gleason, Frank Sinatra, the Beatles, and Sylvester Stallone, who were all absorbed into the gym's legend. The 5th Street Gym's beginnings trace back to 1950, when Chris Dundee, along with his brother Angelo, began promoting big-time boxing at Miami Beach. "Tales from The 5th Street Gym" includes a wealth of never-before-seen photographs and is the first to chronicle the fascinating history of the 5th Street Gym from one of its insiders - Dr. Ferdie Pacheco - with crucial contributions from Tom Archdeacon, Angelo Dundee, Suzanne Dundee Bonner, Enrique Encinosa, Howard Kleinberg, Ramiro Ortiz, Edwin Pope, Bob Sheridan, and Budd Schulberg. Discover the secret history of one of boxing's most hallowed grounds, as Pacheco recalls the rise, heyday, and fall of the 'sweet science' at Miami Beach. |
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« Reply #30 on: December 07, 2009, 06:36:31 PM » |
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« Reply #32 on: December 17, 2009, 11:18:12 PM » |
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my mrs has managed to get me for xmas kirkland laings ..the gifted one ..cant wait to read.
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« Reply #33 on: December 18, 2009, 08:12:11 PM » |
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my mrs has managed to get me for xmas kirkland laings ..the gifted one ..cant wait to read.
My bro is getting me a copy for Xmas, can't wait to get my hands on it either. |
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« Reply #34 on: December 29, 2009, 10:40:11 AM » |
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Anyone know whats Oscars books like ?
Had it for christmas and finished it boxing day night so very, very readable. Oscar's very open and honest, talks about how his love for the sport and how he became aware of the money issues after getting done over early in his career and ended up starting GBP. Top read |
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« Reply #35 on: December 29, 2009, 07:10:04 PM » |
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got 4 kings, Hitman and Hands of stone for christmas so all in all very happy, let people know what i think when i've read them, reading 4 kings at the moment and as of yet haven't been able to put it down  |
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« Reply #36 on: January 16, 2010, 01:58:06 PM » |
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Off the Ropes: the Ron Lyle Story (Paperback) by Candace Toft (Author) 6/10  "How do we reconcile this soft-spoken, gentle man with the `toughest heavyweight who never won the title?" In a life as tough and brutal as his bouts, Ron Lyle had already served hard time for second degree murder before he started his amateur boxing career. Afterwards, he was the supposedly third-rate fighter who had Muhammad Ali beat for ten rounds in the title bout; the guy who fought George Foreman in a brawl with four knockdowns, known in boxing lore as `The One For the Ages'; and the guy who was arrested for murder a second time. Off the Ropes: The Ron Lyle Story not only explores the era of the greatest heavyweights in world boxing history, it tells an equally compelling personal tale. Ron Lyle grew up in the Denver projects, one of nineteen children in a religious family. Aged 20, he was convicted for a disputed gang killing and served several years in the state penitentiary, where he learned to box before he was paroled in 1969. After a meteoric amateur career and an executive pardon, he turned pro in 1971 and over the next six years established an outstanding record in the ring. Then, in 1978, Lyle was indicted for murder a second time and, even though he was acquitted, his career was effectively over. The years that followed were filled with struggle, a captivating love story and ultimate redemption. Today, he runs a youth center in Denver that bears his name. Off the Ropes: The Ron Lyle Story is the poignant, uplifting biography of a singular man. |
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« Reply #37 on: January 16, 2010, 02:09:10 PM » |
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read four kings over a year ago know and its a great book and a good insight to the greatest era in boxing, just finshed thomas hearns and that is probably my favourite book and is truly hard to put down, just brought hands of stone and oscars book and cant wait to get into them but not sure which one to start first, i wish marvin hagler wrote a book as id like to learn about his early career and the struggle he had to get big fights
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« Reply #38 on: January 24, 2010, 07:02:27 PM » |
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Anybody read 'The Arc of Boxing'? There's a interview with the author here http://www.doghouseboxing.com/DHB/Tyler012010.htm Looks like it could be interesting reading. I've got a stack of books I want to get through. I need to spend more time with books and less on the internet  |
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« Reply #39 on: March 02, 2010, 10:33:52 PM » |
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A couple of years old now, but 'Boxing's Hall of Shame' by Thomas Myler - seriously good read, sped through it on holiday in Greece.
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« Reply #40 on: March 03, 2010, 11:04:31 AM » |
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Just finished " Rope burns" by Ian Probert it's a good read with an interesting new slant on how through boxing the author turned his live around
Funny. I am reading 'Rope Burns' by a F.X. Toole. Great read. |
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'Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.' Sigmund Freud
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« Reply #41 on: March 03, 2010, 09:03:19 PM » |
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Funny. I am reading 'Rope Burns' by a F.X. Toole. Great read.
Yep. Recommendable. It's fiction though but written by a former coach (or so). |
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« Reply #42 on: March 08, 2010, 06:58:22 PM » |
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Had it for christmas and finished it boxing day night so very, very readable. Oscar's very open and honest, talks about how his love for the sport and how he became aware of the money issues after getting done over early in his career and ended up starting GBP. Top read
have to disagree with you there , It was ok but not enough information on the nitty gritty . Nothing to write home about . |
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« Reply #43 on: March 13, 2010, 12:14:04 PM » |
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try to get hold of sugar ray robinson -the inside story by thomas myler its excellent , also jack doyle-fighting for love by michael taub. shortlist for 1990 william hill sports book of the year.
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« Reply #44 on: March 30, 2010, 02:26:48 PM » |
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