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My birthday is coming up and I have been buying myself gifts and getting gifts...I went to a used book store and bought Blood In My Coffee by Ferdie Pacheco and Joe Louis-The Great Black Hope... by Richard Bak...Has anybody read The Great Black Hope?

It looks like a good read...

I'm also reading Muhammad Ali- ThroughThe Eyes Of The World ...It's full of great anecdotes....

TheOneIsHere2008 wrote:My birthday is coming up and I have been buying myself gifts and getting gifts...I went to a used book store and bought Blood In My Coffee by Ferdie Pacheco and Joe Louis-The Great Black Hope... by Richard Bak...Has anybody read The Great Black Hope?

It looks like a good read...

I'm also reading Muhammad Ali- ThroughThe Eyes Of The World ...It's full of great anecdotes....

Bak's book is okay. Nothing special.

If its a used book store I would get a copy of Joe Louis's autobiography
MY LIFE originally published in 1978.

Brutu wrote:If its a used book store I would get a copy of Joe Louis's autobiography
MY LIFE originally published in 1978.

There were only about three books on boxing in the entire store...I bought two of them and the third book, Facing Ali, I have already read...

raylawpc wrote:

TheOneIsHere2008 wrote:My birthday is coming up and I have been buying myself gifts and getting gifts...I went to a used book store and bought Blood In My Coffee by Ferdie Pacheco and Joe Louis-The Great Black Hope... by Richard Bak...Has anybody read The Great Black Hope?

It looks like a good read...

I'm also reading Muhammad Ali- ThroughThe Eyes Of The World ...It's full of great anecdotes....

Bak's book is okay. Nothing special.

It chronicles Joe's drug addiction which is sad...I was sad to read that Sugar Ray Leonard, who I admired , abused coke and his wife...Leonard said he turned to drugs to replace the high or rush he got from fighting...

raylawpc wrote:

TheOneIsHere2008 wrote:My birthday is coming up and I have been buying myself gifts and getting gifts...I went to a used book store and bought Blood In My Coffee by Ferdie Pacheco and Joe Louis-The Great Black Hope... by Richard Bak...Has anybody read The Great Black Hope?

It looks like a good read...

I'm also reading Muhammad Ali- ThroughThe Eyes Of The World ...It's full of great anecdotes....

Bak's book is okay. Nothing special.

I though Bak's book was pretty good.

It is good, but did you see much of anything that made you say, "Wow - I never knew that before!!"

anybody read ring of hate im just starting to read it now

I've read it. It's good, but Margolick's Beyond Glory - Joe Louis vs. Max Schmeling, and a World on the Brink is more detailed and does a much better job of showing the importance and meaning of the fights in the context of the times, both from the American and German perspectives.

TheOneIsHere2008 wrote:

raylawpc wrote:

TheOneIsHere2008 wrote:My birthday is coming up and I have been buying myself gifts and getting gifts...I went to a used book store and bought Blood In My Coffee by Ferdie Pacheco and Joe Louis-The Great Black Hope... by Richard Bak...Has anybody read The Great Black Hope?

It looks like a good read...

I'm also reading Muhammad Ali- ThroughThe Eyes Of The World ...It's full of great anecdotes....

Bak's book is okay. Nothing special.

It chronicles Joe's drug addiction which is sad...I was sad to read that Sugar Ray Leonard, who I admired , abused coke and his wife...Leonard said he turned to drugs to replace the high or rush he got from fighting...

I can understand the temptation. It must be ahrd for these guys when they retire the average boxing commentator seems to have a shroter memory than the average fan.

Also, how hard would it be to let go of the discipline these guys had to have? Then when you do let go of it how do you know when to pull yourself back again?