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Author: Colleen Aycock ,
Mark Scott
Publisher: McFarland & Co Inc
Imprint: McFarland & Co Inc
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 1.50cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.399kg
ISBN: 9780786439942
ISBN 10: 0786439947
Pages: 294
Publication Date: 31 October 2008
Recommended Age: From 18 years
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
wonderful...expertly crafted...it is quite simply one of the most engrossing boxing books I have ever read...highly recommend[ed] --<i>BoxingTalk</i>; compelling and informative...a first-rate account of the life and times of Gans...a wonderful book, which rightly gives Joe Gans the respect and admiration he so richly deserves --<i>Examiner.com</i>; Colleen Aycock and Mark Scott, and McFarland, deserve our warm thanks in spotlighting the short, but singular, career of one of America's least well-known athletes, a lightweight boxer named Joe Gans...[who] became the first black American world-title holder in any sport. --<i>Journal of Sport History</i>; finally! Someone has written a book about boxing's first African American world champion...marvelous...well written...very enjoyable and educational...highly recommend --<i>International Boxing Research Organization</i>; the most thorough and meticulously researched volume on this fighter to date...a must-have...interesting and informative...very detailed --<i>Cyber Boxing Zone</i>; probably nobody knows more about Joe Gans than Aycock --<i>Albuquerque Journal and Mas New Mexico.</i>
“wonderful...expertly crafted...it is quite simply one of the most engrossing boxing books I have ever read...highly recommend[ed]”—BoxingTalk; “compelling and informative...a first-rate account of the life and times of Gans...a wonderful book, which rightly gives Joe Gans the respect and admiration he so richly deserves”—Examiner.com; “Colleen Aycock and Mark Scott, and McFarland, deserve our warm thanks in spotlighting the short, but singular, career of one of America’s least well-known athletes, a lightweight boxer named Joe Gans…[who] became the first black American world-title holder in any sport.”—Journal of Sport History; “finally! Someone has written a book about boxing’s first African American world champion...marvelous...well written...very enjoyable and educational...highly recommend”—International Boxing Research Organization; “the most thorough and meticulously researched volume on this fighter to date...a must-have...interesting and informative...very detailed”—Cyber Boxing Zone; “probably nobody knows more about Joe Gans than Aycock”—Albuquerque Journal and Mas New Mexico.
Author Information
Colleen Aycock, co-editor for the International Boxing Research Organization, was named to the New Mexico Boxing Hall of Fame and is the author, co-author or co-editor of five books on boxing. She lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Mark Scott, a novelist and former Golden Gloves boxer, lives in Austin, Texas. He is a contributor to other publications on the history of boxing.
