Brings to life the fight world of that era. Mr. Mitchell's account is full of memorably drawn scenes, and the stories we haven't heard before make Jacobs Beach a cigar-chomping read.--Wall Street Journal The value of Mitchell's book lies not only...
Gangsters have been around boxing for ever. When boxing took hold in Madison Square Garden just after the First World War a new wave of criminals moved in: the Mob. It was then that Prohibition gave street legitimacy to organised crime right across America; and by the time...