(boxing)Books under the X-Mas tree

[Brutu]

remember the old days back in the 1960's and 1970's when people actually gave books as gifts wrapped up
and the books were under the tree Christmas morning?
Which boxing books would you have enjoyed recieving that you didnt know about then but liked years later
when you came across them?
Which years?
They have to have been recently published or a recent reprint of an old title.
(no mouldy old books under the tree).

[HomicideHenry]

I wouldnt mind a re-print of Paul Sykes 'Sweet Agony'

[Brutu]

Christmas 1977.
I Would have liked to have received as a gift,
the 50th anniversary edition,,
JACK JOHNSON-IN THE RING AND OUT
1977 reprint with appendixes
(Gilbert Odd Edition)
I didnt get to read a copy of his autobiography until a couple of years ago,when the original 1927 edition
was reprinted in softcover by kessinger publishing.
One of my favorite books now.

[jimglen]

http://www.pugilistica.com/begifiprbyau.html
here's an excellent story, author donated for posterity - more important for the story to be known. great price and reviewed also at the CBZ.

[granberry]

http://www.pugilistica.com/begifiprbyau.html
here's an excellent story, author donated for posterity - more important for the story to be known. great price and reviewed also at the CBZ.

I have seen that.

It is excellent.

That guy was probably the most cheated top level fighter in history.

Jimmy Wilde said he considered him an excellent boxer, and that is some compliment considering the source.

[harrygreb]

if only i could read once more the book that i was glued to in my local library as an 9 year old kid. a book that described great bouts featuring guys like nel tarleton, henry armstrong, dempsey/tunney 1, harry greb, jim driscoll and others so visually that i could hear the roar of the crowd and the sound of leather hitting skin. alas, i dont remember the author nor the title, but what a book! what memories! when i left the library it was pitch dark and boxing was indelibly etched on my heart.

[jimglen]

a lot of boxing books are similar and quite honestly "not very good".
I can proudly say that when I wrote Gilroy was here! we purposely incorporated the times, period, location(s) and people with all the current thoughts, feelings, flavour and psyche of the times, and we were quite successful at given the reader a great visual and mental image of this great fighters life, career and experience...

the best boxing books I have read were, the Rochdale Thunderbolt, Box On, Facing Ali and Men of Steel. most of the bio's are too similar and wanting.

[alexpaterson]

Oscar De La Hoya - My Story

Good book very sad start but good read havent finished it yet but so far so good and also "Boxing Greats" by Steve Bunce and Bob Mee that is quite intresting telling you about all the great era's and fight. Good read also.

[Master_Of_Disaster]

Muhammad Ali- The greatest his own biography that he wrote during his 3 years away from the rings.

[BoxBuzz]

The Gilroy book looks interesting

Anyone know anything about "King of the Canebrakes"? Is it a specific biography of Young Stribling?

[jimglen]

The Gilroy book looks interesting...

Thanks BoxBuzz,
it's a shame, "most" people in Boxing and Sport 'still' know little or nothing about the man!

[Collins2000]

The Gilroy book looks interesting...

Thanks BoxBuzz,
it's a shame, "most" people in Boxing and Sport 'still' know little or nothing about the man!

And that's how it will stay, Jimbo.

Like the Scottish Boxing Hall of Fame told you, Get over it.

[-KOKid-]

Anyone know anything about "King of the Canebrakes"? Is it a specific biography of Young Stribling?

Yes, it is.
I read it a few years ago.
I wouldn't say it was a great book, but good enough to be worth the read.
I remember feeling there was a lot more to be told abou Stribling and his career.

The best boxing book I have read in the last couple of years is "Occupation: Prizefighter - The Freddie Welsh Story", by Andrew Gillamore.
Get that one if you can.