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Boxing, sport, both amateur and professional, involving attack and defense with the fists. Boxers usually wear padded gloves and generally observe the code set forth in the marquess of Queensberry rules. Matched in weight and ability, boxing contestants try to land blows hard and often with their…
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Publications (7)
Straight Writes and Jabs An Inside Look at Another Year in Boxing (September 2013)
By Thomas Hauser
Commenting on Thomas Hauser's annual collections of articles on boxing, Ring Magazine declared, "What makes Hauser's stories so extraordinary is that the man many consider 'The Dean of Boxing Writers' refuses to allow his admiration for the sport to blind him to its dark side. His annual volumes on boxing have become required reading for hardcore and casual fans alike." Straight Writes and Jabs is the latest in the popular series. It brings readers into the dressing room with elite...
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Arnold Palmer A Personal Journey (October 2012)
By Thomas Hauser, Arnold Palmer
This edition includes a foreword from Golf Channel’s Rich Lerner, a new afterword from the author and an original essay by Arnold Palmer, “Reflections on the Game.”
With the possible exception of Babe Ruth, no athlete has done as much for a sport as Arnold Palmer has done for golf. During the course of his career he won 92 tournaments, 62 of them on the PGA tour. He is the first golfer to reach the million-dollar mark in tour earnings, and the first four-time winner of the coveted...
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The Boxing Scene (2009)
By Thomas Hauser
Thomas Hauser has been called “one of boxing’s greatest writers. The Boxing Scene, Hauser’s provocative new anthology, contains all of his trademark insights and candor as he peels away layers of hypocrisy to reveal the men who make up the contemporary boxing landscape.
Hauser exposes the inner workings of HBO Sports; examines the phenomenon of mixed martial arts as it relates to boxing; and records the amusing encounter between his 81-year-old mother and larger-than-life boxing...
The Lost Legacy of Muhammad Ali (2005)
By Thomas Hauser
The Lost Legacy of Muhammad Ali is Thomas Hauser's companion volume to his seminal 1991 work, Muhammad Ali: His Life and Times, a biography hailed as "incomparable" by The New York Times, "a considerable achievement" by the Wall Street Journal, and "simply magnificent" by the Boston Globe. Fourteen years later, Hauser believes that Ali remains a transcendental figure in American life. But in recent years, Ali has been packaged and repackaged and the reasons for his importance, as well as the electrifying...
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Muhammad Ali and Company (1998)
By Thomas Hauser
America's love for boxing has never been greater and, in this collection, Tom Hauser, who has collaborated with Muhammad Ali on numerous books and articles, presents his best pieces from "The New York Times, Sports Illustrated, Boxing Illustrated", and other major publications.
Muhammad Ali His Life and Times (June 1992)
By Thomas Hauser
In the words of more than 200 of Ali’s family members, opponents, friends, world leaders, and others who have known him best, the real Muhammad Ali emerges: deeply religious, mercurial, generous, a showman in and out of the ring.
Thirty years after he burst onto the scene as a gold medal light-heavyweight at the Rome Olympics, Muhammad Ali is still a magical figure. His accomplishments in the ring were the stuff of legend—the two fights with Sonny Liston, when he proclaimed himself...
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The Execution of Charles Horman: An American Sacrifice (1978)
By Thomas Hauser
Thomas Hauser (born 27 February 1946 in New York City, U.S.) is an American author. He made his debut as a writer in 1978 with The Execution of Charles Horman: An American Sacrifice. Horman's wife, Joyce and father, Ed Horman cooperated with Hauser on the book describing both the fate of Charles and his family's quest to uncover the truth in Chile. It was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize and adapted as Costa-Gavras's film Missing. Argues that Horman, an American who was killed in the Chilean coup of...
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