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Here are the great events of boxing's American heyday: Sugar Ray Robinson's dramatic comeback, Rocky Marciano's rise to prominence, Joe Louis's unfortunate decline, brought so vividly to life that Sports Illustrated named The Sweet Science the best American sports book of all time.
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"Grover Gardner is the perfect narrator for this collection of Liebling's New Yorker pieces about boxing, written in the 30s, 40s, and 50s…No one else has ever written so well about this sport. Gardner captures the voices of 'know-it-all' New York fight fans and the denizens of the Neutral Corner, a New York City bar owned, tended, and patronized by fighters and their retinue. Gardner's rendition
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