Sports

★★★★☆ | Sports | Print | Own | StoryGraph | Goodreads

A great collection of essays and fight recaps over boxing’s storied history. Some of these I had read before (Shadow Box by George Plimpton, The Fight by Norman Mailer and Four Kings by George Kimball). Gene Tunney’s essay about fighting Jack Dempsey was amazing. 

I began to wish I had more time to think and read and talk to people, to stop writing so much and with such assurance. Columnists have to write with assurance because they are paid to raise The Truth.
— Robert Lipsyte