Paul Gallico
Paul Gallico achieved national acclaim as a sportswriter and editor at the New York Daily News. He created the Golden Gloves amateur boxing competition and boxed with Jack Dempsey, swam against Johnny Weissmuller, golfed with Bobby Jones, and ... [... more]
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A Flame of Pure Fire: Jack Dempsey and the Roaring '20s
 From Amazon.com: Jack Dempsey (1895-1983) launched the age of big-money, high-visibility boxing with his 1919 defeat of heavyweight champion Jess Willard. Then when Gene Tunney beat Dempsey in 1927, assisted by a referee's controversial "long count,& [... more]
CDN$16.67
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On Boxing
From Amazon.com: Yes, the same Joyce Carol Oates who packs one of the most lethal punches in American literature also happens to be an astute observer of the sweet science. Oates filters her knockout collection of essays through multifaceted prisms of [... more]
CDN$16.25
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Getting Unstuck
How to avoid a dead end or find a better path to follow: Well before reading the final chapter of this book, I concluded that Timothy Butler is both a relentless empiricist (i.e. being keenly observant of human experience, especially his own) and a [... more]
CDN$27.95
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Retromania: At the Jazz Bakery
Artist: Dave Frishberg Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0780941133424 Format: Import Original Release Date: 2006-02-14 Release Date: 2006-02-14 UPC: 780941133424 Tracks: Can't Take You Nowhere Useless Waltz Zoot Walks In Who Do You Think You Are, Jack Dempsey? [... more]
CDN$19.99
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Bad Company
TRADING ON HIS REPUTATION? OVER THE HILL? OR JUST TIRED?: Higgins at his best was unbeatable. At his worst, which this book is, he's hard to tie by even those stinkers that killed the Western genre, such as Tor and M. Evans were (in)famous for. [... more]
CDN$15.95
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The Boxing Register
The most informitave boxing title i've seen: The boxing register is a must have for any true boxing fanatic. The book has information of every inductee from the IBHOF, from the pioneers of the bare-knuckle era to "The Greatest", all of them [... more]
CDN$23.85
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How To Drive Your Competition Crazy
Mishmash of Marketing and Strategy: A mixture of marketing and strategy, much of it better said by others, such as Al Ries (Focus : The Future of Your Company Depends on It), Geoffrey A. Moore (Crossing the Chasm, Inside the Tornado, etc), and Co- [... more]
CDN$20.00
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Jack Dempsey: THE MANASSA MAULER
A solidly written biography: Jack Dempsy: The Manassa Mauler by Randy Roberts (Professor of History, Purdue University) is a solidly written biography of the famous Heavyweight Champion of the World who held that title from 1919 to 1926. From Jack Dempsy' [... more]
CDN$20.79
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ESPN Classic Ringside: Top 10 Heavyweights
Actor: Muhammad Ali Actor: Jack Dempsey Actor: George Foreman Actor: Joe Frazier Actor: Larry Holmes Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 Binding: DVD EAN: 0796019805230 Format: Full Screen Format: NTSC Is Autographed: 0 Is Memorabilia: 0 MPN: TM5027 Release Date: 2008-0 [... more]
CDN$36.99
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Requiem for a Heavyweight (Widescreen/Full Screen)
From Amazon.com: This feature version of Rod Serling's memorable teleplay, theatrically released in 1962, was previously produced in 1956 for live television. The grim tale stars Anthony Quinn as a brain-damaged fighter suffering from too many years in [... more]
CDN$26.95
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How to Fight Tough
Primarily for the combat historian: I was extremely pleased to see the reprint of this previously hard-to-find book. I have, of late, renewed my interest in the martial arts as taught by the military during the 40's and 50's (don't ask what I paid for a [... more]
CDN$15.05
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