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Title:

Boxing's best short stories / edited by Paul D. Staudohar.

Publisher:

Chicago Review Press,

Copyright Date:

c1999

Description:

xiv, 330 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Boxing stories.
American fiction--20th century

Other Authors:

Staudohar, Paul D.

Contents:

Rose into cauliflower / by Mel Matison -- The last blow / by Octavus Roy Cohen -- The Croxley master / by A. Conan Doyle -- The higher pragmatism / by O. Henry -- Sonny Liston was a friend of mine / by Thom Jones -- Twenty-five bucks / by James T. Farrell -- Bred for battle / by Damon Runyon -- Heart / by Neil McMahon -- A piece of steak / by Jack London -- Thicker than water / by Paul Gallico -- Return to Kansas City / by Irwin Shaw -- Death of a prize fighter / by Robert Switzer -- A matter of seconds / by Ellery Queen -- The debut of battling billson / by P.G. Wodehouse -- He swung and he missed / by Nelson Algren -- The legend of pig-eye / by Rick Bass -- Everything in the fifth / by Maxence Van Der Meersch -- One-thirty-three: Ringside / by Charles E. Van Loan -- A boxer: old / by Harry Sylvester -- The Chickasha bone crusher / by H.C. Witwer -- Champion / by Ring Lardner -- Stop the fight! / by Norman Katkov.

ISBN:

9781556523649 (cloth) :
1556523645 (cloth) :

OCLC:

(OCoLC)40856917

LCCN:

99014335

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

RZPE145 -- Carroll Public Library (Carroll)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)