Has anyone read......

Discussion in 'British Boxing Forum' started by phonk, Nov 30, 2009.


  1. phonk

    phonk Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Jacobs Beach: The Mob, the Garden, and the Golden Age of Boxing

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    War, Baby

    By Kevin Mitchell?

    The Mrs is looking to buy me some boxing related books for Christmas and i came across these while having a look on Amazon. Just wondering what anyone who's read them thinks.

    ta
     
    phonk, Nov 30, 2009
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  2. Grant1

    Grant1 Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    I enjoyed War, Baby.
     
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  3. phonk

    phonk Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Sold!

    I'll get the Mrs to get me that.
     
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  4. kidgloves

    kidgloves Boxing Addict Full Member

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    War babys a great book. I think someone on here said the other book had some shocking historical mistakes
     
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  5. Grant1

    Grant1 Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    It's worth watching the fight again before reading the book if you've not seen it in a while.
     
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  6. Godfather

    Godfather I put the G in God Full Member

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    Ive read Jacobs Beach.

    Pretty good. Solid 7/10

    Helped me make sense of the sport in that era
     
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  7. Jack Dempsey

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    Jacobs beach was a real let down, factual errors aplenty and its subject matter veered all over the place. Little bit about the old Gardens, the actual Jacobs beach, then went off about Jim Norris Frankie Carbo and stuff I'd read a hundred times before, then went into a chapter about Don King.

    Just wasn't the book I thought it was going to be, the review in this months BM is pretty spot on
     
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  8. slip&counter

    slip&counter Gimme some X's and O's Full Member

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    war, baby is a very good read, haven't read the other one yet, i did hear good reviews although jack doesn't seem to think much of it.
     
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  9. Kid Lucky

    Kid Lucky Well-Known Member Full Member

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    War, Baby is good. Very accessible and doesn't moralise of wring hands.

    BM review says that Jacobs Beach has got some factual errors but overall entertaining so I might invest or get the library to buy one on.
     
    Kid Lucky, Nov 30, 2009
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