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Strong Boy: The Life and Times of John L. Sullivan, America's First Sports Hero, Library Edition
By Joe Barrett (narrator) and Christopher Klein
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher Blackstone Audio Inc
Publication date July 7, 2015
Binding CD/Spoken Word
Edition Unabridged
Book category Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13 9781504615709
ISBN-10 1504615700
Dimensions 1.25 by 6.75 by 6 in.
Weight 0.75 lbs.
Original list price $105.00
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I can lick any son-of-a-bitch in the world.

So boasted John L. Sullivan, the first modern heavyweight boxing champion of the world, a man who was the gold standard of American sports for more than a decade and the first athlete to earn more than a million dollars. He had a big ego, a big mouth, and even bigger appetites. His womanizing, drunken escapades, and chronic police-blotter presence were godsends to a burgeoning newspaper industry. The larger-than-life boxer embodied the American dream for late nineteenth-century immigrants as he rose from Boston s Irish working class to become the most recognizable man in the nation. In the process, the Boston Strong Boy transformed boxing from outlawed bare-knuckle fighting into the gloved spectacle we know today.

"Strong Boy" tells the story of America s first sports superstar, a self-made man who personified the power and excesses of the Gilded Age. Everywhere John L. Sullivan went, his fists backed up his bravado. Sullivan s epic brawls, such as his seventy-five-round bout against Jake Kilrain, and his cross-country barnstorming tour in which he literally challenged all of America to a fight are recounted in vivid detail, as are his battles outside the ring with a troubled marriage, wild weight and fitness fluctuations, and raging alcoholism. "Strong Boy" gives readers ringside seats to the colorful tale of one of the country s first Irish American heroes and the birth of the American sports media and the country s celebrity obsession with athletes."

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With Joe Barrett (other contributor) | Unabridged edition from Blackstone Audio Inc (July 7, 2015)
9781504615709 | details & prices | 6.75 × 6.00 × 1.25 in. | 0.75 lbs | List price $105.00
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