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The Legend of Mitch Blood Green and Other Boxing Essays
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ISBN10: 1949590801
ISBN13: 9781949590807
Publisher: Hamilcar Publications
Published: Mar 25 2025
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.99
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781949590807
Publisher: Hamilcar Publications
Published: Mar 25 2025
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.99
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Charles Farrell's many personal encounters, questions, insights, and
experiences as an observer of the sport... add a multifaceted richness to [this]
essay collection.... Readers will find its vibrant psychological, social,
political, and personal revelations are just the ticket for a read that is
experiences as an observer of the sport... add a multifaceted richness to [this]
essay collection.... Readers will find its vibrant psychological, social,
political, and personal revelations are just the ticket for a read that is
solid in its facts, unexpected in its focus and connections, and thoroughly
delightful in its novel approach to boxing.--Midwest Book ReviewMitch Blood Green had
more things going for him to make big money in boxing than nearly any fighter
in history. A six-foot-six, 225-pound heavyweight with a chiseled physique and
a traffic-stopping look, Green had ironclad street credibility--he was the gang leader
of the Black Spades--and four New York Golden Gloves heavyweight titles. But his penchant for
mayhem, drugs, and chaos, while keeping him in the news, torpedoed his pro boxing
career. He lost a high-profile decision to Mike Tyson at Madison Square Garden,
got into a tabloid-grabbing late-night street fight with Tyson at an
after-hours boutique in Harlem, and then disappeared. Until Charles Farrell
found him. In The Legend of Mitch Blood Green and Other Boxing Essays, Farrell captures life in the boxing
business from its deepest interior, and offers additional portraits of characters
as wide-ranging as Donald Trump, Floyd Patterson, Bert Cooper, Charley Burley, Peter
McNeeley, and Muhammad Ali. Trenchant, fearless, and often flat-out funny, there has never
been a boxing book like this, and there will never be another.
delightful in its novel approach to boxing.--Midwest Book ReviewMitch Blood Green had
more things going for him to make big money in boxing than nearly any fighter
in history. A six-foot-six, 225-pound heavyweight with a chiseled physique and
a traffic-stopping look, Green had ironclad street credibility--he was the gang leader
of the Black Spades--and four New York Golden Gloves heavyweight titles. But his penchant for
mayhem, drugs, and chaos, while keeping him in the news, torpedoed his pro boxing
career. He lost a high-profile decision to Mike Tyson at Madison Square Garden,
got into a tabloid-grabbing late-night street fight with Tyson at an
after-hours boutique in Harlem, and then disappeared. Until Charles Farrell
found him. In The Legend of Mitch Blood Green and Other Boxing Essays, Farrell captures life in the boxing
business from its deepest interior, and offers additional portraits of characters
as wide-ranging as Donald Trump, Floyd Patterson, Bert Cooper, Charley Burley, Peter
McNeeley, and Muhammad Ali. Trenchant, fearless, and often flat-out funny, there has never
been a boxing book like this, and there will never be another.
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