The Sweet Science
A Sports and Games, History, Nonfiction book. I can only surmise about what Liebling would make of todays pugilistic dark ages. In his era,...
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.
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- Filetype: PDF
- Pages: 267 pages
- ISBN: 9780374272272 / 374272271
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Boxing has always been a primarily urban pastime (whereas the defining suburban sport is auto-racing, in which the machine and its anonymous mechanics hold far greater importance than the driver). When white Americans left the cities, they left boxing as well. A.J. Liebling, The Sweet Science I can only surmise about what Liebling would make of todays pugilistic dark ages. In his era, fighters fought rematches of close fights, even title fights, almost automatically. Ray Robinson and Jake LaMotta met six times, inconceivable for champions today. In the 1950s a quality pro thought himself underemployed if he had only eight or ten bouts a year, and the amateur scene was thriving. Nowadays pros who make a living from boxing are about as common as Yetis, and amateurs cant get enough fights to learn the rudiments of the craft. A.J. Liebling,...
I'm a fan of the sports read - check the rest of my titles if you're a doubter. . .this book is somewhat unassailable - even if it is exclusively about boxing in the 40s and 50s. . .This is a collection of essays about various boxing matches first published in the New Yorker back when pugilists held more of a cultural sway. I think... He was fat, droll, liked Paris, food, drink, cigars, and the sweet science -boxing. A newspaperman and writer for the New Yorker in it's hey day, Liebling respected the sport enough to to call a bum a bum, pay special homage to the black fighters of his day, and a fine tuned ear for what was said -from the training camps to the bars,... I enjoyed this thoroughly despite not knowing much about boxing at all. A collection of boxing essays from A.J. Liebling, a writer for the New Yorker from the first half of the 20th century, that are similar but enjoyable. Somewhat cantankerously narrated and dryly observed, Liebling spends time not only watching fights but visiting...
