A review-appreciation by Roger Zotti of Mark Allen Baker’s Tony Canzoneri: The Boxing Life of a Five-Time World Champion, followed by a Q & A with the author Mark Allen Baker.
HIS NAME IS GEORGE DIXON by Roger Zotti I am a white, middle-class author already more than a decade older than [George] Dixon when he died. My experiences are in no way those of Dixon. I approached this book with eyes open to those limitations. I hope this book inspires others to take up Dixon and view
THE SWEET SCIENCE IN THE NUTMEG STATE A review by Roger Zotti of Mark Allen Baker’s Connecticut Boxing . . . how deeply appreciative I am to everyone who enjoys my work. I want readers to know how dedicated I am to each work and how much it means to me to be able to
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“. . . BECAUSE OF THE COLOR LINE” An interview with Mark Allen Baker and a review of his newest book. By Roger Zotti The World Colored Heavyweight title can be viewed in three phases: Phase I—from creation to Jack Johnson capturing the Heavyweight Championship of the World (December 26, 1908); Phase II—from December 26,
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MUCH MORE THAN A BOXING RING By Roger Zotti I hope [readers] smile, frown, laugh and cry, as they realize what this incredible artifact represents. When they finish the book, pause and think about what they have just read, I hope they conclude: There was no better portrait of a sport or our society
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A LOOK AT “THE NEBRASKA WILDCAT” By Roger Zotti Ace Hudkins was a blond thunderbolt in his heyday….His one thought was to get at his opponent and tear him to pieces. Ace fought as a lightweight and middleweight and, though never a champion, he could lick 99 percent of the guys who thought they were
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MARK ALLEN BAKER DISCUSSES HIS BIOGRAPHY OF “THE LITTLE CHAMP” by Roger Zotti “[Abe] Attell was one of the most remarkable featherweights that ever stepped under a rope.” Quoted by Mark Allen Baker from the New York Evening Journal 1 As a Jew growing up poor in an Irish neighborhood in San Francisco, Abraham
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LIGHTS, CAMERA, AND ACTION! A review of Samuel Hawley’s The Fight That Started the Movies By Roger Zotti Samuel Hawley’s latest book, the aptly titled The Fight that Started the Movies: The World Heavyweight Championship, The Birth of Cinema and the First Feature Length Film, will please boxing fans, history buffs, and lovers of a
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From author Roger Zotti (Friday Night World) comes The Proper Pugilist: Essays on the Milling Art (Xlibris). The warriors written about are Gene Tunney and Jack Dempsey, Rocky Marciano and Coley Wallace, Artie Diamond, Stanley Ketchel, Joe Louis and Tony Galento, Sonny Liston, and many others. As for the book’s author, as a teenager living
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