The following is an excerpt, from pages 83-85 of chapter 7, “This Isle of Joy,” from Jacobs Beach: The Mob, The Garden & The Golden Age of Boxing, by Kevin Mitchell. Copyright © 2010 Kevin […]
It was not revenge—not exactly—that motivated Jose Stable during his long march toward Emile Griffith and a shot at the welterweight championship of the world. Stable had been friends with ill-starred Benny Paret, the man […]
The following is the foreword for Slaughter in the Streets: When Boston Became Boxing’s Murder Capital, by Don Stradley. The foreword is written by T. J. English, bestselling author of Paddy Whacked, The Westies, and […]
When the Southern District Court of New York dealt a ten-year prison sentence to former middleweight contender Avtandil Khurtsidze on charges of racketeering and conspiracy last September, it was literally a case of adding insult […]
Owney Madden, who “owned a large piece of Max Baer,” is one of the dark figures in Jacobs Beach: The Mob, The Garden & The Golden Age of Boxing, by Kevin Mitchell, from Hamilcar Publications. […]
Frankie Carbo is one of the central figures in Jacobs Beach: The Mob, The Garden & The Golden Age of Boxing, by Kevin Mitchell, from Hamilcar Publications. *** Among the many criminal charges Frankie Carbo […]
In tandem with the release of Jacobs Beach: The Mob, the Garden & the Golden Age of Boxing, by Kevin Mitchell, from Hamilcar Publications, we take a look at the central figure in this noirish […]
Photography implies that we know about the world if we accept it as the camera records it. But this is the opposite of understanding, which starts from not accepting the world as it looks. All […]
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