The Longest Fight: In the Ring with Joe Gans, Boxing's First African American Champion by William Gildea

The Longest Fight: In the Ring with Joe Gans, Boxing's First African American Champion

William Gildea

256 pages • first pub 2012 (view editions)

nonfiction biography history sports emotional informative slow-paced
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The dramatic, little-known story of a fascinating early African-American sports hero     Joe Gans was the welterweight champion of the world—smart, trim, handsome, with a revered right hook. He was the first black man in Baltimore to own a car, an...

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