Author: Jeremy Schaap
Translator: A-ram Park
Publisher: Saenggag-eui Namu
Hardcover / 418 pages
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About This Book
James Braddock, Max Baer, and the Greatest Upset in
Boxing History
Lost in the annals of boxing is the sport's true Cinderella story. James J.
Braddock, dubbed "Cinderella Man" by Damon Runyon, was a once promising light
heavyweight for whom a string of losses in the ring and a broken right hand
happened to coincide with the Great Crash of 1929. With one good hand, Braddock
was forced to labor on the docks of Hoboken. Only his manager, Joe Gould, still
believed in him, finding fights for Braddock to help feed his wife and children.
The diminutive, loquacious Jew and the burly, quiet Irishman made one of
boxing's oddest couples, but together they staged the greatest comeback in
fighting history. In twelve months Braddock went from the relief rolls to face
heavyweight champion Max Baer, the Livermore Butcher Boy, renowned for having
allegedly killed two men in the ring. A charismatic, natural talent and in every
way Braddock's foil, Baer was a towering opponent, a Jew from the West Coast who
was famously brash and made great copy both in and out of the ring. A ten-to-one
underdog, Braddock carried the hopes and dreams of the working class on his
shoulders. And when boxing was the biggest sport in the world, when the
heavyweight champion was the biggest star in the world, his unlikely upset made
Braddock the most popular champion boxing had ever seen. Against the gritty
backdrop of the Depression, Cinderella Man brings this dramatic all-American
story to life, evoking a time when the sport of boxing resonated with a country
trying desperately to get back on its feet. Schaap paints a vivid picture of the
fight world in its golden age, populated by men of every class and ethnic
background and covered voluminously by writers who elevated sports writing to
art. Rich in anecdote and color, steeped in history, and full of human interest,
Cinderellla Man is a classic David and Goliath tale that transcends the sport.
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