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Pages: 240
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-04-01 - Publisher: University of Georgia Press
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Pages: 313
Pages: 313
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-10-01 - Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
More than a Game discusses how African American men and women sought to participate in sport and what that participation meant to them, the African American com
Language: en
Pages: 361
Pages: 361
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-03-13 - Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Sports fans have long been fascinated with boxing and the brutal demonstration of physical and psychological conflict. Accounts of the sport appear as far back
Language: en
Pages: 201
Pages: 201
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-01-10 - Publisher: McFarland
During the early years of the 20th century, San Francisco promoters served up boxing's grandest spectacles. On February 22, 1910, a crowd of more than 15,000 br
Language: en
Pages: 257
Pages: 257
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009 - Publisher: Temple University Press
Thomas Hauser has been called “one of boxing’s greatest writers. The Boxing Scene, Hauser’s provocative new anthology, contains all of his trademark insig
