Gloves A Boxing Chronicle

Name: Gloves A Boxing Chronicle
Price: 5.95 USD
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ISBN: 9780865475991

ISBN-10: 0865475997

ISBN-13: 9780865475991

Edition: 2002

Authors: Robert Anasi, R. Anasi

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A gritty, spirited inside look at the world of amateur boxing today The Golden Gloves tournament is center stage in amateur boxing-a single-elimination contest in which young hopefuls square off in steamy gyms with the boxing elite looking on. Robert Anasi took up boxing in his twenties to keep in shape, attract women, and sharpen his knuckles for the odd bar fight. He thought of entering "the Gloves," but put it off. Finally, at age thirty-two-his last year of eligibility-he vowed to fight, although he was an old man in a sport of teenagers and a light man who had to be even lighter (125 pounds) to fight others his size. So begins Anasi's obsessive preparation for the Golden Gloves. He…

Book details

List price: $24.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Publication date: 2/14/2002
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 320
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.75" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English




A Way of Life



December



History



September



Laura



Head Shots



November



Baywatch



Julian



The Show



January



The Strange Case of the Professor



Respect



The Amateur



February



Knocked



Black (and Blue)



The Fight



The Old Lion



Spring



Boxing


Postscript


Acknowledgments