Includes a one-hour interview from 1970 with boxing legend James
Braddock!
Lost in the annals of boxing is the sport's true Cinderella story.
James J. Braddock, dubbed "Cinderella Man" by Damon Runyon, was a
once promising light heavyweight for whom a string of losses in the
ring and a broken right hand happened to correspond with the Great
Crash. With one good hand, Braddock was forced to labor on the
docks of Hoboken. Only his manager, Joe Gould, still believed in
him, finding fights for Braddock to help feed his wife and
children. The diminutive, loquacious Jew and the burly, quiet
Irishman made one of boxing's oddest couples, but together they
staged the greatest comeback in boxing history. In less than twelve
months Braddock went from the relief rolls to face heavyweight
champion Max Baer, the Livermore Butcher Boy, renowned for having
allegedly killed two men in the ring. A charismatic, natural talent
and in every way Braddock's foil, Baer was a towering opponent, a
Jew from the West Coast who was famously brash and made great copy
both in and out of the ring. A ten-to-one underdog, Braddock
carried the hopes and dreams of the working class on his shoulders.
And when boxing was the biggest sport in the world, when the
heavyweight champion was the biggest star in the world, his
unlikely upset made him the most popular champion boxing had ever
seen.
Against the gritty backdrop of the Depression, Cinderella Man
brings this dramatic all-American story to life, evoking a time
when the sport of boxing resonated with a country trying
desperately to get back on its feet. Rich in anecdote and color,
steeped in history, and full of human interest, Cinderella Man is a
classic Davidand Goliath tale that transcends the sport.
"From the Compact Disc edition.
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