The Longest Fight: In the Ring with Joe Gans (Book)

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  1. Flea Man

    Flea Man มวยสากล Full Member

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    Title goes on: Boxing's First African-American Champion

    Seen on Amazon this is due to be released next year. Is it new? Written by a journalist from The Washington Post from what I can gather from a quick flick on google.

    He's nicked Adam Pollack's series title :yikes

    Apparently weighs in at just over 200 pages. Is it just me or is that too slight to give a good account of 'The Master'? Guess we'll have to wait and see.
     
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  2. Rasch

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    Is this the one by Colleen Aycock? If it is, this was published a couple of years ago.

    Or is this another Gans biography?
     
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  3. Flea Man

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    Another one....search it on amazon and you'll find the authors name, I can't remember now and am on my phone now :good
     
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  4. Surf-Bat

    Surf-Bat Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Colleen Aycock wrote the latest Gans bio.
     
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  5. Flea Man

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    This one is written by William Gildea.
     
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  6. Rasch

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    Yes, I see it ..... you're right. :good
     
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  7. Flea Man

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    We'll have to see how it turns out, but as I say I'm sure you could find more than 200 pages of material on Gans.....however this is not a valid criticism until I read the book.
     
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  8. Senya13

    Senya13 Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    224 pages book on a single fight (Gans-Nelson I) sounds fine. The book on Jeffries-Johnson bout by Greenwood was pretty good, and that was only 172 pages.
     
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  9. Flea Man

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    Is this just a single fight though?
     
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  10. Senya13

    Senya13 Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    From [ame="http://www.amazon.com/Longest-Fight-Boxings-African-American-Champion/dp/0374280975/"]Amazon[/ame]:
    The book centers on an epic boxing match held in September 1906 in Goldfield, Nevada: Gans versus the racist fighter Oscar “Battling” Nelson, who was known to bite opponents. The promoter, the young Tex Rickard, played up the fight as a race war. A new rail line brought tens of thousands of spectators from San Francisco. Dozens of reporters came to file blow-by-blow accounts to their home cities. And a pair of entrepreneurs filmed the fight to show in theaters, closed-circuit style.
     
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  11. Flea Man

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    Sorry, didn't see that on .co.uk :good

    Yep, seems adequate.
     
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  12. burt bienstock

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    The first African-American champion was George Dixon who won the Bantam title in London, 1890. Joe Gans ,10 years later won the LW title in 1900...
     
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  13. Flea Man

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    Tell it to the author Burt, not my title :good

    Any books on Dixon or McGovern out there?
     
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  14. Senya13

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    Dixon was African-Canadian. Gans won the title in 1902, not in 1900.
     
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  15. Flea Man

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    Knew there was summat about Dixon :good
     
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