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    612-822-4611

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Brick City Grudge Match: Tony Zale and Rocky Graziano Battle in Newark, 1948

Brick City Grudge Match: Tony Zale and Rocky Graziano Battle in Newark, 1948

Honecker, Rod

Paperback

Biographies GeneralBoxing

ISBN10: 1476689431
ISBN13: 9781476689432
Publisher: McFarland & Company
Published: Jan 31 2023
Pages: 203
Weight: 0.66
Height: 0.55 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

On June 10, 1948, the eyes of the sporting world were focused on a minor league ballpark in Newark, New Jersey--the unlikely venue of a much-anticipated rubber match between the two men at the top of boxing's prestigious middleweight division, Tony Zale and Rocky Graziano. They had met in the ring twice before, each winning one bout. In their third fight, Zale, a clever and powerful puncher, hoped to regain his title from Graziano, a knock-out artist six years his junior. This book tells the story of the greatest middleweight trilogy of boxing's Golden Age, a championship battle Newark hoped would catalyze brighter days for a city rife with political corruption and organized crime and grappling with the beginning of deindustrialization.

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