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Pub. Date
[1998]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 18
Description
"There were mythic sports figures before him - Jack Johnson, Babe Ruth, Joe Louis, Joe DiMaggio - but when Cassius Clay burst onto the sports scene from his native Louisville in the 1950s, he broke the mold. He changed the world of sports and went on to change the world itself. As Muhammad Ali, he would become the most recognized face on the planet. This unforgettable story of his rise and self-creation, told by a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer, places...
42) Campeón gabacho
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Pub. Date
2015.
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Así habla Liborio. De esa forma piensa. Él debe dejar México, esa tierra que no le ha ofrecido nada más que golpes y el instinto de sobrevivencia, tras un asesinato imprudencial. Cruza, como tantos otros, el Río Bravo para llegar "a la tierra prometida'. Y en un barrio indefinido de cualquier ciudad gringa, este mojado nos cuenta su historia.
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Pub. Date
2019.
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Description
History will remember the rivalry of Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali as one for the ages. A trilogy of extraordinary fights that transcended the world of sports and crossed into a sociocultural drama that divided the country. Joe Frazier was a much more complex figure than just his rivalry with Ali would suggest. In this riveting and nuanced portrayal, acclaimed sportswriter Mark Kram, Jr. unlinks Frazier from Ali and for the first time gives a full-bodied...
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Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 10
Description
His mind failing from the effects of decades of bare-knuckle fighting, his foster mother's family legacy in the hands of strangers, and overwhelmed with gambling debts, Jack's only chance at redemption is to step into the fighting pit one last time.
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Pub. Date
2018.
Description
World champion boxer Lew Jenkins fought his whole life. As a child, he fought extreme poverty during the Great Depression, in his twenties, he fought as a professional boxer and became a world champion, and at the pinnacle of his boxing career, Jenkins fought in World War II and the Korean War.
“From Boxing Ring to Battlefield: The Life of War Hero Lew Jenkins” details for the first time this extraordinary story. Despite his talent for boxing,...
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Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
Boxing's true Cinderella story: James J. Braddock, dubbed "Cinderella Man" by Damon Runyon, was a once promising light heavyweight for whom a string of losses and a broken right hand happened to coincide with the Great Crash of 1929. With one good hand, he was forced to labor on the docks of Hoboken. Only his manager still believed in him. The diminutive, loquacious Jew and the burly, quiet Irishman made one of boxing's oddest couples, but together...
52) Boxing
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Series
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"A survey of the highlights and legendary athletes--such as Cuban Te©đfilo Stevenson--of the Olympic sport of boxing, which officially became a part of the modern Summer Games in 1904" -Provided by Publisher.
57) Marbleface
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When almost middle weight champ of the World of fighters is told to slow down by his doctor ; so he quits fist fighting to become a remarkably good gunfighter.
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