Jacobs Beach: The Mob, the Garden and the Golden Age of Boxing
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"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 Gangsters have always infected fight game. At the end of the First World War, through Prohibition, and into the 1930s, the Mob emerged as a poisonous force, threatening to ravage the sport. But it was only when cutthroat Madison Square Garden promoter Mike Jacobs, chieftain of a notorious patch of Manhattan pavement called Jacobs Beach, stepped aside that the real devil appeared former Murder, Inc. killer and underworld power broker Frankie Carbo, a man known to many simply as Mr. Gray. And Carbo wasn't alone. Along with a crooked cast of characters that included a rich playboy and an urbane lawyer, he controlled boxing through most of the 1950s, with the help of a diabolical deputy, Francis Blinky Palermo, who did much of Mr. Gray s dirty work, reportedly drugging fighters and robbing them blind. Not until 1961, when Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy shipped Carbo and Palermo to jail for twenty-five years, did it all come crashing down. Enriched by the recollections of some of the men who were there, Kevin Mitchell's Jacobs Beach offers a gripping, noirish look at boxing and organized crime in postwar New York City and reveals the fading glamour of both.
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Kevin Mitchell J.. Jacobs Beach: The Mob, the Garden and the Golden Age of Boxing
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Guide
Jacobs Beach. The Mob, The Garden & The Golden Age of Boxing
Foreword
Chapter 1. The Beast Within
Chapter 2. The Ring Is Dead
Chapter 3. Never Far from Broadway
Chapter 4. Owney Madden and Lucky Jim
Chapter 5. Setting Up Joe
Chapter 6. Distant Drums
Chapter 7. This Isle of Joy
Chapter 8. Alone on Sugar Hill
Chapter 9. The Cat in the Coonskin Hat
Chapter 10. The Rise of the Rock
Chapter 11. Sonny and the Mob
Chapter 12. The Slow Death of the IBC
Chapter 13. Long Live the King
Chapter 14. Teddy Atlas Knows
Chapter 15. Sparring with Schulberg
Chapter 16. Rocky Died in One of My Jackets
Chapter 17. Lou Duva, a Fighter
Chapter 18. A Couple of Artists
Chapter 19. The Reckoning
Good Night, and Good Luck
Index
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