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A Fighter's Heart: One Man's Journey Through the World of Fighting
ISBN: 9780802143433 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1999, after a series of wildly adventurous jobs around the world, Sam Sheridan found himself in Australia, loaded with cash and intent on not working until he d spent it all. It occurred to him that, without distractions, he could finally indulge a long-dormant obsession: fighting. Within a year, he was in Bangkok training with the greatest fighter in muay Thai (Thai kickboxing) history and stepping through the ropes for a professional bout. That one fight wasn t enough. Sheridan set out to test himself on an epic journey into how and why we fight, facing Olympic boxers, Brazilian...
In 1999, after a series of wildly adventurous jobs around the world, Sam Sheridan found himself in Australia, loaded with cash and intent on not worki...
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69,17 zł |
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The Onion Picker: Carmen Basilio and Boxing in the 1950s
ISBN: 9780815681755 / Angielski / Twarda / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The early 1950's saw the sport of boxing develop into one of the most popular spectator sports in America. The medium of television provided the opportunity for fans to tune in each week, to watch the best fighters in the world battle on Gillette s Friday Night Fights. This decade so rich in culture was the backdrop for creating some of the most legendary champions of all time. Rocky Marciano, Sugar Ray Robinson, Kid Galivan, Jake LaMotta, Gene Fullmer, and a tough guy from Canastota, New York, Carmen Basilo. The early 1950's saw the sport of boxing develop into one of the most popular spectator sports in America. The medium of television provided the op... |
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95,89 zł |
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A Neutral Corner: Boxing Essays
ISBN: 9780865474956 / Angielski / Miękka / 245 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Fifteen previously unpublished boxing pieces written between 1952 and 1963. Demonstrating A.J. Liebling's abiding passion for the "sweet science" of boxing, A Neutral Corner brings together fifteen previously unpublished pieces written between 1952 and 1963. Antic, clear-eyed, and wildly entertaining, these essays showcase a The New Yorker journalist at the top of his form. Here one relives the high drama of the classic Patterson-Johansson championship bout of 1959, and Liebling's early prescient portrayal of Cassius Clay's style as a boxer and a poet is not to be... Fifteen previously unpublished boxing pieces written between 1952 and 1963. Demonstrating A.J. Liebling's abiding passion for the "sweet scie... |
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80,70 zł |
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The Gloves: A Boxing Chronicle
ISBN: 9780865476523 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In his last year of eligibility, Robert Anasi, age thirty-two, decided to fight in the Golden Gloves tournament, the premier event in amateur boxing. "The gym becomes a way of life," he explains, and so it does for the reader, as Anasi ushers us into the world of training and competition, of friendly rivalry, of artistry and violence. He tells his story not as a journalist on assignment but as a man in the midst of one of the great adventures of his life, and in his hands "a dying blood sport is reincarnated as a metaphor for redemption under flawed circumstances" (Nita Rao, The Village... In his last year of eligibility, Robert Anasi, age thirty-two, decided to fight in the Golden Gloves tournament, the premier event in amateur boxin... |
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111,45 zł |
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When Dempsey Fought Tunney: Heroes Hokum Storytelling Jazz Age
ISBN: 9780870499180 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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68,24 zł |
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Dan Stuart's Fistic Carnival
ISBN: 9780890966143 / Angielski / Twarda / 243 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Dan Stuart's Fistic Carnival "is your ringside seat to the wildest, craziest, most unbelievable sequence of events in the history of boxing--a colossal clash of giant egos, pulpit-pounding preachers, grandstanding politicians, and indominable lawmen that reverberated from the marble halls of Congress to the muddy banks of the Rio Grande. And it's all absolutely true
Never have so many done so much to stop so few. The year was 1895, and Dallas gambler Dan Stuart had a modest idea: promote a boxing carnival featuring a match for the heavyweight championship of the world between Gentleman... "Dan Stuart's Fistic Carnival "is your ringside seat to the wildest, craziest, most unbelievable sequence of events in the history of boxing--a coloss...
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117,02 zł |
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Dan Stuart's Fistic Carnival
ISBN: 9780890966150 / Angielski / Miękka / 243 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Never have so many done so much to stop so few. The year was 1895, and Dallas gambler Dan Stuart had a modest idea: promote a boxing carnival featuring a match for the heavyweight championship of the world between Gentleman Jim Corbett and Fighting Bob Fitzsimmons. What could be simpler? This richly detailed true epic of a fight and the hard-punching (and sometimes loony) political and religious turmoil surrounding it will entertain not only sports fans but all who appreciate a well-told tale that demonstrates once and for all that truth can be stranger than fiction - a lot stranger.
Never have so many done so much to stop so few. The year was 1895, and Dallas gambler Dan Stuart had a modest idea: promote a boxing carnival featurin...
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58,49 zł |
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Punch Lines: Berger on Boxing
ISBN: 9780941423953 / Angielski / Miękka / 350 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Punch Lines: Berger on Boxing By Phil Berger. Foreword by Bert Sugar. Profiles of Riddick Bowe, Mike Tyson, Sugar Ray Leonard, George Foreman, and many more, by the former boxing correspondent for the New York Times. illustrated/index ISBN: 0-941423-95-6
Punch Lines: Berger on Boxing By Phil Berger. Foreword by Bert Sugar. Profiles of Riddick Bowe, Mike Tyson, Sugar Ray Leonard, George Foreman, and man...
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84,50 zł |
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Boxing Interviews of a Lifetime
ISBN: 9781403369994 / Angielski / Miękka / 458 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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114,10 zł |
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Boxing Interviews of a Lifetime
ISBN: 9781403370006 / Angielski / Twarda / 488 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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164,41 zł |
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Off the Canvas: A Tale of Two Brothers
ISBN: 9781418429928 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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68,37 zł |
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Bring it to the Ring: A boxing yearbook and inspirational message to today's youths
ISBN: 9781420827637 / Angielski / Miękka / 88 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This yearbook, which provides a behind-the-scenes look at professional boxing, is intended to encourage young people to set high goals in life and, more importantly, to conquer those goals - no matter which sport or profession you choose in life. The photographs and interviews inside were compiled between April 2003 and April 2004, during a significant period in modern boxing: Rising trainer James "Buddy" McGirt led Antonio "Magic Man" Tarver to a stunning knockout of Roy Jones Jr., marking the end of an era for a pound - for - pound king. Buddy continues to train Antonio - the light...
This yearbook, which provides a behind-the-scenes look at professional boxing, is intended to encourage young people to set high goals in life and, mo...
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149,77 zł |
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Brad Cooney's Let's Talk Boxing
ISBN: 9781420848311 / Angielski / Miękka / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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59,57 zł |
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Mi Vida Loca: The Crazy Life of Johnny Tapia
ISBN: 9781566252713 / Angielski / Twarda / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. There is only one winner in boxing, according to Johnny Tapia in this new autobiography. "Fighting against your opponent and fighting against your own inner demons become one in the same." "Mi Vida Loca" is not just a nickname for Tapia, but a legendary tale of a life lived over the edge and back.
There is only one winner in boxing, according to Johnny Tapia in this new autobiography. "Fighting against your opponent and fighting against your own...
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153,08 zł |
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Boxing's Most Wanted: The Top 10 Book of Champs, Chumps, and Punch-Drunk Palookas
ISBN: 9781574887143 / Angielski / Miękka / 271 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Most Wanted series puts on the gloves and steps inside the squared circle to chronicle the best and worst of the pugilistic world plus everything in between. Authors David L. Hudson, Jr., and Mike Fitzgerald, Jr., answer the bell with fifty top-ten lists of famous fighters, fantastic finishes, oddball occurrences, and yes, even the punch-drunk palookas that padded the stats of some of the sport s top stars. You ll read about the greatest fight trilogies, the biggest upsets, the famous families, and the real-life boxing personalities who appeared in the movie reels. You ll even read...
The Most Wanted series puts on the gloves and steps inside the squared circle to chronicle the best and worst of the pugilistic world plus everything ...
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48,73 zł |
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Rocky Lives!: Heavyweight Boxing Upsets of the 1990s
ISBN: 9781574889062 / Angielski / Miękka / 337 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Boxing fans love the upset, seeing the underdog surprise the heavy favorite and take the fight to him, winning over the fans and perhaps even more important the judges. Sylvester Stallone mined that emotion through his long series of Rocky films. Rocky is fiction, however. The men in "Rocky Lives " are real. David E. Finger, a writer for top boxing website FightNews.com, presents chronologically seventy-five heavyweight boxing upsets of the 1990s. Some involve boxers still fighting today; others contain a cautionary tale of once-great boxers chasing one last payday. There are also the...
Boxing fans love the upset, seeing the underdog surprise the heavy favorite and take the fight to him, winning over the fans and perhaps even more imp...
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68,24 zł |
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Boxing's Greatest Fighters
ISBN: 9781592286324 / Angielski / Miękka / 370 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Wanna fight? Boxing s most entertaining historian picks the best fighters of all time."
Wanna fight? Boxing s most entertaining historian picks the best fighters of all time."
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96,85 zł |
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Tyson-Douglas: The Inside Story of the Upset of the Century
ISBN: 9781597970686 / Angielski / Twarda / 242 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. No one gave James -Buster- Douglas much of a chance when he faced -Iron- Mike Tyson on February 11, 1990, in the Tokyo Dome. Tyson was Godzilla, and Buster wasn't expected to be anything more than a moth for Tyson to swat away, much less Mothra. Douglas had four losses already and 42-1 odds against him in this bout. One reporter, going through Japanese customs, announced he was in town for business. When asked how long he would be working, he laughed and responded -Oh, about a minute.- The match lasted longer than that, though. When it was over, it was the greatest upset in boxing history....
No one gave James -Buster- Douglas much of a chance when he faced -Iron- Mike Tyson on February 11, 1990, in the Tokyo Dome. Tyson was Godzilla, and B...
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153,53 zł |
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Boxing Mastery: Advanced Technique, Tactics, and Strategies from the Sweet Science
ISBN: 9781884654213 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This guide to the finer points of boxing provides the wisdom needed to make the transition from enthusiastic beginner to proficient pugilist. The ABCs of ring generalship, offensive and defensive ring movements, feints, and draws and fakes are examined and explained along with clinching techniques, head-hunting, body work, and counter-punching chains. Strategies for boxing against tall and short opponents as well as for a variety of fighting styles such as charger, speed-demon, stick-and-move, and slugger and brawler are discussed in detail. Specific drills focus on sophisticated ring...
This guide to the finer points of boxing provides the wisdom needed to make the transition from enthusiastic beginner to proficient pugilist. The ABCs...
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53,61 zł |
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War, Baby : The Glamour of Violence
ISBN: 9780224060738 / Angielski / Miękka / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An award-winning journalist and boxing aficionado recounts the story of the infamous 1995 bout between Britain's Nigel Benn and American Gerald McClellan that led to a reassessment of the sport as entertainment and of the procedures by which it is regulated.
An award-winning journalist and boxing aficionado recounts the story of the infamous 1995 bout between Britain's Nigel Benn and American Gerald McClel...
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66,70 zł |
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