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How To Box by Joe Louis 9781639232321
RRP: £8.00Booksplease Price: £6.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781639232321Author Joe LouisFormat PaperbackPage Count 68Imprint -
Beyond Glory: Joe Louis vs. Max Schmeling, and a World on the Brink by Mr David Margolick 9780375726194
Booksplease Price: £19.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375726194Author David MargolickFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint -
The Fight of His Life: Joe Louis's Battle for Freedom During World War II by Randy Roberts 9781541605060
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £22.57Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Bird In A Box by Andrea Davis Pinkney 9780316074025
Booksplease Price: £9.75It's 1937. America is struggling to get out of the Great Depression and 3 children, Otis, Willie and Hibernia, are about to become friends. They already have a lot in common: they've each lost a... -
The Sweet Science: Boxing and Boxiana - A Ringside View by A. J. Liebling
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Take 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... -
The Ultimate Book of Boxing Lists by Bert Randolph Sugar
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.52What were the ten most fantastic knockouts in boxing history? Which pugilist had the greatest jab of all time? What were the sport's most intense rivalries? Who scored the biggest upsets in the... -
Sweet William: The Life of Billy Conn by Andrew O'Toole 9780252077456
Booksplease Price: £16.47An Irish working-class hero of Pittsburgh, Billy Conn captured hearts through his ebullient personality, stellar boxing record, and good looks. A light heavyweight boxing champion best remembered for... -
Rocky Marciano: The Rock of His Times by Russell Sullivan
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £15.53In this captivating and complex portrait of an American sports legend, Russell Sullivan confirms Rocky Marciano's place as a symbol and cultural icon of his era. As much as he embodied the wholesome,... -
A Boxing Legacy: The Life and Works of Writer and Cartoonist Ted Carroll by Ian Phimister 9781538164792
Booksplease Price: £31.87This book is a celebration of legendary African American sports writer and boxing cartoonist Ted Carroll, whose career spanned one of the most exciting periods of boxing's past, from Joe Louis to... -
Salute: The Inside Story of England's Own Goal at Berlin's Olympiastadion by John Leonard 9781801507103
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.54One sporting image stands out as the most divisive and controversial in English football history: the sight of the England team making the Nazi salute in Berlin on 14 May 1938. This book examines how... -
The Joe: Memories from the Heart of Hockeytown by Detroit Free Press 9781629374758
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £12.75In December 1979, a Detroit tradition began when the Red Wings took the ice for the first time at their new riverfront home, Joe Louis Arena. Named after former heavyweight champion boxer Joe Louis,... -
The Syntax of Sports, Class 7: Information Flow by Patrick Barry 9781607859079
Booksplease Price: £13.28What can sports fans who start “the wave” at a big stadium teach us about getting people to speak up in class or at an important meeting? What can the poet Maya Angelou and the boxer Joe Louis teach... -
Michigan's Haunted Legends and Lore by Kristy Robinett 9780764342400
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.31Journey across the State of Michigan, rich in history, to read over 40 tales of the strange, the unusual, and the haunted of centuries past. Discover the spectral cries of the lost souls under a... -
Counterpunch by Ira Berkow 9781600789731
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £12.71Spanning the period between 1967 and 2005, this compilation includes 84 of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ira Berkow's columns on boxing. Readers will meet some of the greatest names in the sport's... -
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12 GREATEST ROUNDS OF BOXING by 9781861058058 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £3.30Boxing's clolourful history is filled with chapters of high drama and simmering controversy. Many boxing fans are familiar with the outcome of the most memorable bouts, but few know the secrets... -
New York Fight Nights: A Century of Iconic Big Apple Bouts by Tom Myler
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £7.22No city in the world is more associated with boxing than New York. So take a ringside seat on the city's greatest ever fight nights. Join the roaring crowds at iconic venues including Madison Square... -
Sugar Ray by Sugar Ray Robinson 9780306805745
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.77Sugar Ray Robinson (1921-1989) was hailed as the finest boxer to ever enter a ring. Muhammad Ali once called him "the king, my master, my idol",and indeed, he was the idol of everyone who had... -
Immortals of American Boxing Don Stradley 9781922662279
RRP: £23.00Booksplease Price: £17.26The Immortals of American Boxing celebrates our greatest ever fighters. It chooses the best of the best from over a century of the sport's colorful history. Renowned boxing writer Don Stradley... -
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Strange Fruit: Billie Holiday, Cafe Society And An Early Cry For Civil Rights by David Margolick 9781841952840 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £2.40The story of the song that foretold a movement and the Lady who dared sing it.Billie Holiday's signature tune, 'Strange Fruit', with its graphic and heart-wrenching portrayal of a lynching in the... -
Strange Fruit: Billie Holiday, Cafe Society And An Early Cry For Civil Rights David Margolick 9781841952840
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95The story of the song that foretold a movement and the Lady who dared sing it.Billie Holiday's signature tune, 'Strange Fruit', with its graphic and heart-wrenching portrayal of a lynching in the... -
Swingin' at the Savoy by Norma Miller
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £20.89Dancer, award-winning choreographer, show producer, stand-up comedienne, TV/Film actress and author, Norma Miller shares her touching historical memoir of Harlem's legendary Savoy Ballroom and the... -
Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X: The Fatal Friendship (A Young Readers Adaptation of Blood Brothers) by Johnny Smith 9780316478854
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £6.40Discover the remarkable relationship between Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X, and how their bond affected the movement for Black pride and independence in the 1960s in this nonfiction book for young... -
One Nation Under Baseball: How the 1960s Collided with the National Pastime by John Florio 9781496214065
Booksplease Price: £16.47One Nation Under Baseball highlights the intersection between American society and America's pastime during the 1960s, when the hallmarks of the sport-fairness, competition, and mythology-came under... -
The John Lardner Reader: A Press Box Legend's Classic Sportswriting by John Lardner 9780803230477
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.37This collection marks the return to print of John Lardner, one of America's press box giants, a classic stylist whose wry humor and tireless reporting helped elevate sportswriting to art. The... -
Milo Imagines The World by Matt de la Pena
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78Shortlisted for the Yoto Kate Greenaway Medal 2022.Milo Imagines the World is a warm and richly satisfying story from the award-winning and New York Times bestselling picture book duo, about a little... -
Waterman: The Life and Times of Duke Kahanamoku by David Davis 9780803254770
Booksplease Price: £24.88Waterman is the first comprehensive biography of Duke Kahanamoku (1890-1968): swimmer, surfer, Olympic gold medalist, Hawaiian icon, waterman. Long before Michael Phelps and Mark Spitz made their... -
The World's Fastest Man: The Extraordinary Life of Cyclist Major Taylor, America's First Black Sports Hero by Michael Kranish
Booksplease Price: £14.49In this "sharp-eyed account of a nearly forgotten African-American sports legend" (Publishers Weekly)-the remarkable Major Taylor who became the world's fastest bicyclist at the height of the Jim... -
Race and Football in America: The Life and Legacy of George Taliaferro by Dawn Knight 9781684350667
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £15.90As the first African American player to be drafted by the NFL and the first African American to play quarterback, George Taliaferro was a trailblazer whose athletic prowess earned him accolades... -
Unbeaten: The Triumphs and Tragedies of Rocky Marciano by Mike Stanton 9781509822508
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02'Unbeaten is one of the best sports books I've read in years.' - Jonathan Eig, author of Ali: A Life.Rocky Marciano accomplished a feat that eluded legendary champions like Joe Louis, Jack Dempsey,... -
Milo Imagines the World by Matt de la Pe a
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.06Milo is on a long subway ride with his older sister. To pass the time, he studies the faces around him and makes pictures of their lives. There's the whiskered man with the crossword puzzle; Milo... -
Carmela Full Of Wishes by Matt de la Pena
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £13.67When Carmela wakes up on her birthday, her wish has already come true - she's finally old enough to join her big brother as he does the family errands. Together, they travel through their...