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Joe Gans
Language: en
Pages: 296
Authors: Colleen Aycock
Categories: Sports & Recreation
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-11-21 - Publisher: McFarland

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Joe Gans captured the world lightweight title in 1902, becoming the first black American world title holder in any sport. Gans was a master strategist and tacti
The Longest Fight
Language: en
Pages: 257
Authors: William Gildea
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-06-19 - Publisher: Macmillan

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The dramatic, little-known story of Joe Gans, an early African-American sports hero and the welterweight champion of the world. Though he is largely unknown tod
Battling Nelson, the Durable Dane
Language: en
Pages: 295
Authors: Mark Allen Baker
Categories: Sports & Recreation
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-12-09 - Publisher: McFarland

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Oscar “Battling” Nelson (1882–1954) was perhaps the toughest professional boxer ever to enter the ring. Although a Hall of Fame inductee, Nelson remains a
Pioneers of Cable Television
Language: en
Pages: 231
Authors: Brian Lockman
Categories: Performing Arts
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-10-27 - Publisher: McFarland

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Although there are different opinions about where cable television actually began, a great deal of the ingenuity that developed cable into today’s multibillio
The First Black Boxing Champions
Language: en
Pages: 303
Authors: Colleen Aycock
Categories: Sports & Recreation
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-01-10 - Publisher: McFarland

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This volume presents fifteen chapters of biography of African American and black champions and challengers of the early prize ring. They range from Tom Molineau