Tag: mike jacobs
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#58: ‘The Harder They Fall’ by Budd Schulberg
‘The Harder They Fall’ is Budd Schulberg’s novel about fictional boxer and man-mountain ‘El Toro’ Molina. The narrator of the book is boxing journalist Eddie Lewis, who, like a lot of writers I know, is procrastinating and putting off finishing the play he believes is his life’s work, while scratching a living filing copy for…
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#26: ‘Jacobs Beach’ by Kevin Mitchell
‘Jacobs Beach – The Mob, the Garden & the Golden Age of Boxing’ by Kevin Mitchell focuses on the period during which Mike Jacobs was the talent booker for Madison Square Garden, at the time the only place to make a career as a top tier boxer. If you were a boxer in New York,…
Writers on Boxing 