40 Books Recommended by The Ring

Good list, here are some books I like:

The Black Lights by Thomas Hauser

Sugar Ray Leonard and Other Noble Warriors by Sam Toperoff

Dark Trade: Lost in Boxing by Donald McRae

Ringside: A Treasury of Boxing Reportage by Budd Schulberg

The Long Round: The Triumphs and Tragedies of the Men Who Fought Mike Tyson by Dominic Calder-Smith

The Big If: The Life and Death of Johnny Owen by Rick Broadbent

 

We need more Joe Louis and Jack Dempsey related books like the Titanic needed another iceberg. Give me Clay Moyle's Langford opus, Paxton's Greb book, Kelly Nicholson's Jeffries book or one of Adam Pollack's any day.

 

Let me add "Charley Burley and the Black Murderer's Row" by Harry Otty and "The Fighting Irish" by Roger Anderson. Excellent reads.

 

About halfway through. It's good. I'm not constantly drawn back to smash through it but I've got a lot on. It's not big, I reckon on a good week I'd have blasted through it. Certainly readable and sets the scene well.

 

Saw a signed copy of Roy Harris' Autobiography in the store today. $35.

 

I'm currently reading the Joe Louis biography by Randy Roberts, really enjoying it so far.

Not surprised to see Sweet Thunder on there, that was captivating and I'm not normally a reader of long books.

Other than that Hands of Stone by Christian Giudice was good, currently waiting for Waterstones to send me his Alexis Arguello bio but its taking forever.

 

I've read several of these books and they are all brilliant, my personal favourites are,

'The Hardest Game', Hugh McCilvanney
'Ringside' , Budd Schulberg
'The Sweet Science', AJ Liebling ..

Not on Hauser's list, but books i thouroghly enjoyed are,

'The Fight', Norman Mailer
'Tunney', Jack Kavanaugh
'Dark Trade', Donald Mcrae
'Hands of Stone', Christian Giudice

 

Thank you for the link. I bought Beyond Glory by David Margolick for my iPad instantly. I also enjoyed his book "Two Women from Little Rock". Really talented writer.

 

The best one I've read yet.

Also "The Good Son" about Ray Mancini and "Floyd Patterson: The fighting life of Boxing's invisible champion" are very good as well.

 

Thanks for the tip Clay :good

Might get that, Muldoon was certainly an interesting character. Basically invented pro wrestling. Mates with Fitz.

 

A very good list ... some of the better reads mentioned there ...