{"product_id":"jacobs-beach-the-mob-the-garden-and-the-golden-age-of-boxing","title":"Jacobs Beach: The Mob, the Garden and the Golden Age of Boxing","description":"\u003cp\u003ePaperback book by \u003cstrong\u003eKevin Mitchell\u003c\/strong\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eOverview\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGangsters 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.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnd 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEnriched by the recollections of some of the men who were there, Kevin Mitchell’s \u003cem\u003eJacobs Beach\u003c\/em\u003e offers a gripping, noirish look at boxing and organized crime in postwar New York City—and reveals the fading glamour of both.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis revised edition includes a foreword by Mike Stanton, bestselling author of \u003cem\u003eUnbeaten: Rocky Marciano’s Fight for Perfection in a Crooked World\u003c\/em\u003e (Henry Holt, 2018).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003ePraise\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“This is as much a history of twentieth-century boxing as it is a true-crime story; it will please fight enthusiasts and mafia mavens equally”\u003cstrong\u003e—\u003cem\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“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.”\u003cstrong\u003e—\u003cem\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKevin Mitchell is the boxing and tennis correspondent for \u003cem\u003eThe Observer\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/em\u003e. He is the author of \u003cem\u003eWar, Baby\u003c\/em\u003e, which was shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year, the co-author of Frank Bruno’s autobiography \u003cem\u003eFrank\u003c\/em\u003e, which won the Best Autobiography category of the British Sports Book Awards, and author of \u003cem\u003eJacobs Beach: The Mob, the Garden and the Golden Age of Boxing\u003c\/em\u003e (Hamilcar Publications 2019).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eDetails\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher: Hamilcar Publications; 2nd edition (October 15, 2019)\u003cbr\u003e Language: English\u003cbr\u003e Paperback: 288 pages\u003cbr\u003e ISBN-13: 978-1949590029\u003cbr\u003e Item Weight: 1 lb (0.45 kg)\u003cbr\u003e Dimensions: 6 x 9 x 0.5 inches (15.2 x 22.9 x 1.3 cm)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hamilcar Publications","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48987947434206,"sku":"asw1788665824170","price":10.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0790\/2966\/6014\/files\/jacobs-beach-the-mob-the-garden-and-the-golden-age-of-boxing_1.webp?v=1788665828","url":"https:\/\/www.jorvinta.shop\/products\/jacobs-beach-the-mob-the-garden-and-the-golden-age-of-boxing","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}