Greatest Boxing Stories Ever Told: Thirty-Six Incredible Tales From The Ring, First Edition: Thirty-Six Incredible Tales From The Ring

Great value at the price. Book was exactly as advertised and delivered in a timely fashion.

Classic sampling of great stories in boxing. This book contains one of the best accounts of Sugar Ray Robinson fight dramas. A must read for sweet science scholars.

was ok

Wonderful stories

My husband loved this book. He was a boxing fan.

ok

Just a great sampling of writing on the sweet science from many different perspectives. The one by Daniel Mendoza is amazing,as he was one of the first champions - from the turn of the 18th century. The way he thought and expressed himself is so interesting. Pearce Egan was the first great boxing writer, and his piece was mesmerizing. Frank DeFord on Billy Conn was great, as was Jack London on the Johnson-Jeffries fight. Jimmy Cannon, Ring Lardner, Paul Gallico, and A.J. Liebling all contribute classic stuff. I like learning about the PEOPLE involved in boxing as much as the events and results of the fights, and this book was right up my alley.

This collection has a ton of good material that will give you a sample of the various sources of high quality boxing writing available if you're interested. The time periods involved go all the way back to the early 1800s, not counting the surprisingly awesome passage by Homer from The Iliad. Probably the most heavily-featured period is from around the 1930s-1960s. Other than that Homer piece, I also especially enjoyed the passages by Daniel Mendoza, Heywood Broun, John Lardner, and W.C. Heinz. If you're looking to get into boxing writing, or if you're an MMA fan looking for something to read to make up for the relative lack of MMA writing, this is definitely a good place to start. You do have the inherent weakness of the anthology where you end up finding a few things you really like that are over before you know it, but with the internet you can take the names of the authors and easily gain access to more of the stuff you like best. If you want a sample of the type of quality piece contained in this collection, look up "Sport for Art's Sake" by Heywood Broun. You can find it on Google Books, it's my favorite passage from the entire package.

Thank you.

Looks good, again this is a present for my fiance who lives boxing, hoping he likes it

As described, condition perfect, arrived quickly.One star down because I didn’t like that the stories are very short, often few pages only. Often given only one part of whole story. For me it was difficult to read, lost in too many names.

Great reading.

Awesome book