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PublisherHannibal Boxing Media LLC

ISBN-10194959002X

ISBN-139781949590029

eBay Product ID (ePID)20038615114

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Edition2

Book TitleJacobs Beach : the Mob, the Garden and the Golden Age of Boxing

Number of Pages288 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2019

TopicBoxing, United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, De, Md, NJ, NY, Pa), General, Organized Crime, Criminology

IllustratorYes

FeaturesRevised

GenreSports & Recreation, True Crime, Social Science, History

AuthorKevin Mitchell

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.5 in

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2018-964155

Reviews"This is as much a history of twentieth-century boxing as it is a true-crime story; it will please fight enthusiasts and mafia maven equally"-- Library Journal, "Brings to life the fight world of that era. Mr. Mitchell's account is full of memorably drawn scenes, and the stories we haven't heard before make Jacobs Beach a cigar-chomping read."-- Wall Street Journal "...as Kevin Mitchell shows in this wonderfully evocative book, at the very peak of influence boxing was hopelessly tainted by corruption and gangsterism. The so-called 'Golden Age' was dominated by the base alloy of the mob's racketeering." -- The Telegraph "This is as much a history of twentieth-century boxing as it is a true-crime story; it will please fight enthusiasts and mafia maven equally" -- Library Journal, "Brings to life the fight world of that era. Mr. Mitchell's account is full of memorably drawn scenes, and the stories we haven't heard before make Jacobs Beach a cigar-chomping read." -- Wall Street Journal "...as Kevin Mitchell shows in this wonderfully evocative book, at the very peak of influence boxing was hopelessly tainted by corruption and gangsterism. The so-called 'Golden Age' was dominated by the base alloy of the mob's racketeering." -- The Telegraph "This is as much a history of twentieth-century boxing as it is a true-crime story; it will please fight enthusiasts and mafia maven equally" -- Library Journal, "Brings to life the fight world of that era. Mr. Mitchell's account is full of memorably drawn scenes, and the stories we haven't heard before make Jacobs Beach a cigar-chomping read."-- Wall Street Journal, But as Kevin Mitchell shows in this wonderfully evocative book, at the very peak of influence boxing was hopelessly tainted by corruption and gangsterism. The so-called 'Golden Age' was dominated by the base alloy of the mob's racketeering.-- The Telegraph

Dewey Edition23

Dewey Decimal796.8309747/1

Edition DescriptionRevised edition

Table Of ContentForeword: Mike Stanton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi 1 The Beast Within . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 2 The Ring Is Dead . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 3 Never Far from Broadway . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15 4 Owney Madden and Lucky Jim . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . 29 5 Setting Up Joe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .41 6 Distant Drums . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 7 This Isle of Joy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 8 Alone on Sugar Hill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. .89 9 The Cat in the Coonskin Hat . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . .. . .111 10 The Rise of the Rock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .127 11 Sonny and the Mob . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .145 12 The Slow Death of the IBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . 157 13 Long Live the King . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .165 14 Teddy Atlas Knows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .181 15 Sparring with Schulberg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . .187 16 Rocky Died in One of My Jackets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197 17 Lou Duva, a Fighter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .217 18 A Couple of Artists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .225 19 The Reckoning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237 Good Night, and Good Luck . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245 Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251

Synopsis"Brings to life the fight world of that era. Mr. Mitchell's account is full of memorably drawn scenes, and the stories we haven't heard before make Jacobs Beach a cigar-chomping read."-- Wall Street Journal Gangsters have always infected fight game. At the end of the First World War, through Prohibition, and into the 1930s, the Mob emerged as a poisonous force, threatening to ravage the sport. But it was only when cutthroat Madison Square Garden promoter Mike Jacobs, chieftain of a notorious patch of Manhattan pavement called Jacobs Beach, stepped aside that the real devil appeared former Murder, Inc. killer and underworld power broker Frankie Carbo, a man known to many simply as Mr. Gray. And Carbo wasn't alone. Along with a crooked cast of characters that included a rich playboy and an urbane lawyer, he controlled boxing through most of the 1950s, with the help of a diabolical deputy, Francis Blinky Palermo, who did much of Mr. Gray's dirty work, reportedly drugging fighters and robbing them blind. Not until 1961, when Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy shipped Carbo and Palermo to jail for twenty-five years, did it all come crashing down. Enriched by the recollections of some of the men who were there, Kevin Mitchell's Jacobs Beach offers a gripping, noirish look at boxing and organized crime in postwar New York City and reveals the fading glamour of both., "The value of Mitchell's book lies not only in bringing back to life a lost era. He also shows us how the blood, sweat, and toil of the ring has been distilled into hard-won wisdom passed down through the generations--the connective tissue of the sweet science." --From the Foreword by Mike Stanton, author of the award-winning Unbeaten: Rocky Marciano's Fight for Perfection in a Crooked World, Brings to life the fight world of that era. Mr. Mitchell's account is full of memorably drawn scenes, and the stories we haven't heard before make Jacobs Beach a cigar-chomping read. -- Wall Street Journal The value of Mitchell's book lies not only in bringing back to life a lost era. He also shows us how the blood, sweat, and toil of the ring has been distilled into hard-won wisdom passed down through the generations--the connective tissue of the sweet science. --From the Foreword by Mike Stanton, author of the award-winning Unbeaten: Rocky Marciano's Fight for Perfection in a Crooked World Gangsters have always infected fight game. At the end of the First World War, through Prohibition, and into the 1930s, the Mob emerged as a poisonous force, threatening to ravage the sport. But it was only when cutthroat Madison Square Garden promoter Mike Jacobs, chieftain of a notorious patch of Manhattan pavement called Jacobs Beach, stepped aside that the real devil appeared former Murder, Inc. killer and underworld power broker Frankie Carbo, a man known to many simply as Mr. Gray. And Carbo wasn't alone. Along with a crooked cast of characters that included a rich playboy and an urbane lawyer, he controlled boxing through most of the 1950s, with the help of a diabolical deputy, Francis Blinky Palermo, who did much of Mr. Gray's dirty work, reportedly drugging fighters and robbing them blind. Not until 1961, when Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy shipped Carbo and Palermo to jail for twenty-five years, did it all come crashing down. Enriched by the recollections of some of the men who were there, Kevin Mitchell's Jacobs Beach offers a gripping, noirish look at boxing and organized crime in postwar New York City and reveals the fading glamour of both., "Brings to life the fight world of that era. Mr. Mitchell's account is full of memorably drawn scenes, and the stories we haven't heard before make Jacobs Beach a cigar-chomping read." -- Wall Street Journal "The value of Mitchell's book lies not only in bringing back to life a lost era. He also shows us how the blood, sweat, and toil of the ring has been distilled into hard-won wisdom passed down through the generations--the connective tissue of the sweet science." --From the Foreword by Mike Stanton, author of the award-winning Unbeaten: Rocky Marciano's Fight for Perfection in a Crooked World Gangsters have always infected fight game. At the end of the First World War, through Prohibition, and into the 1930s, the Mob emerged as a poisonous force, threatening to ravage the sport. But it was only when cutthroat Madison Square Garden promoter Mike Jacobs, chieftain of a notorious patch of Manhattan pavement called Jacobs Beach, stepped aside that the real devil appeared former Murder, Inc. killer and underworld power broker Frankie Carbo, a man known to many simply as Mr. Gray. And Carbo wasn't alone. Along with a crooked cast of characters that included a rich playboy and an urbane lawyer, he controlled boxing through most of the 1950s, with the help of a diabolical deputy, Francis Blinky Palermo, who did much of Mr. Gray's dirty work, reportedly drugging fighters and robbing them blind. Not until 1961, when Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy shipped Carbo and Palermo to jail for twenty-five years, did it all come crashing down. Enriched by the recollections of some of the men who were there, Kevin Mitchell's Jacobs Beach offers a gripping, noirish look at boxing and organized crime in postwar New York City and reveals the fading glamour of both.

LC Classification NumberGV1125.M57 2019