PENGUIN MODERN CLASSICS : THE SWEET SCIENCE PB – A. J. LIEBLING

Take a ringside seat next to A. J. Liebling at some of the greatest fights in history. Here is Joe Louis s devastating final match; Sugar Ray Robinson s dramatic comeback; and Rocky Marciano s rise to heavyweight glory. The heated ringside atmosphere, the artistry of the great boxers and the blows and parries of the classic fights are all vividly evoked in a volume described by Sports Illustrated as the best American sports book of all time . A rollicking god among boxing writers … before Tom Wolfe and Hunter S. Thompson were out of diapers, Liebling was taking his readers on excursions through the hidden and often hilarious levels of this bruised subculture … the Master Los Angeles Times Nobody wrote about boxing with more grace and enthusiasm The New York Times