A. J. Liebling's classic New Yorker pieces on the "sweet science of bruising" bring vividly to life the boxing world as it once was. It depicts the great events of boxing's American heyday: Sugar Ray Robinson's dramatic comeback, Rocky Marciano's rise to prominence, Joe Louis's unfortunate decline. Liebling never fails to find the human story behind the fight, and he evokes the atmosphere in the arena as distinctly as he does the goings-on in the ring, a combination that prompted Sports Illustrated to name The Sweet Science the best American sports book of all time.
Grover Gardner is the perfect narrator for this collection of Liebling's New Yorker pieces about boxing, written in the '30s, '40s, and '50s. Featured are Joe Louis, Sugar Ray Robinson, Sandy Sadler, Archie Moore, Rocky Marciano, Jersey Joe Walcott--all fighters of America's "golden age" of pre-television boxing. No one else has ever written so well about this sport. Gardner captures the voices of "know-it-all" New York fight fans and the denizens of the Neutral Corner, a New York City bar owned, tended, and patronized by fighters and their retinue. Gardner's rendition of Tommy Farr, the Welsh heavyweight, alone is worth the purchase price. Those who love boxing, and even those who don't, will enjoy the Liebling-Gardner team. R.E.K. (c) AudioFile 2007, Portland, Maine
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"Nobody wrote about boxing with more grace and enthusiasm than Joe Liebling."
About the Author
A. J. Liebling joined the staff of the New Yorker in 1935 and wrote for the magazine until his death in 1963.
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