Sporting Blood: Tales from the Dark Side of Boxing - Expanded Edition - Carlos Acevedo

This book may cement [Acevedo's] status as one of today's best boxing journalists.--Kirkus Reviews \n Boxing has one of the richest literary traditions in sports. From A. J. \nLiebling to Donald McRae, the sweet science has consistently inspired great \nwriting. The work of Carlos Acevedo stands firmly in that distinguished \ntradition. In this expanded edition of Sporting Blood, Acevedo adds two new masterful \nessays--one about the murder of Stanley Ketchel, the other about the gangland \nslaying of Battling Siki--to those that made his debut collection an instant \nclassic. Other highlights include a moving meditation on Muhammad Ali; a \npenetrating look at the enigmatic Charles Sonny Liston; and a vivid profile \nof Mike Tyson, which brilliantly conjures the Boy King's late 1980s reign of \nterror. Acevedo also offers many other unforgettable tales from boxing's dark \nside, featuring Jack Johnson, Joe Frazier, Roberto Duran, Aaron Pryor, Jake \nLaMotta, and more. Sporting Blood is a poetic throwback, a singular book that evokes \njournalism's golden age and places Acevedo among the best sportswriters of his \ngeneration. \n Contents Foreword: Thomas Hauser 1: A Ghost Orbiting Forever: Muhammad Ali 1942-2016 2: Fugitive Days: Jack Johnson in Exile 3: The Last Goodbye: Remembering the Rivalry Between Roberto Durán and Esteban De Jesús 4: Right on for the Darkness: On Aaron Pryor 1955-2016 5: The Catastrophist: The Troubled World of Don Jordan 6: Dark Sun: Remembering Joe Frazier 7: Strange Days: The Johnny Saxton Story 8: The Hurting Kind: Wilfredo Gomez vs. Lupe Pintor 9: Yesterday Will Make You Cry: The Short, Tragic Career of Davey Moore 10: Under Saturn: Johnny Tapia 1967-2012 11: Total Everything Now: Mike Tyson, 1988 12: The Windfall Factor: The Night Bert Cooper Almost Beat Evander Holyfield for the Heavyweight Title 13: Red Arrow: The Mysterious Death of Sonny Liston 14: The Dark Corner: The Furious Life of Jake LaMotta 15: A Young Old Man: The Tragic Life of Ad Wolgast 16: The Lightning Within: Tony Ayala, Jr. 17: No Exit: Eddie Machen 18: One Long Season in Hell: On Michael Dokes 19: Lightning Express: The Quick Rise and Even Quicker Fall of Al Singer 20: Live Forward, Learned Backward: Mike Quarry and the Quarry Curse 21: Leftover Life to Kill: Who Will Remember Carmelo Negron? \n 22. The Busy World: The Murder of Stanley Ketchel \n 23. Too Far from Home: Battling Siki Comes to America \n