Joe Gans: A Biography of the First African American World Boxing Champion

✍ Scribed by Aycock, Colleen

• Book ID: 107520169
• Publisher: McFarland
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 6 MB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780786439942

✦ Synopsis

Joe Gans captured the world lightweight title in 1902, becoming the first black American world title holder in any sport. Gans was a master strategist and tactician, and one of the earliest practitioners of ''scientific'' boxing. As a black champion reigning during the Jim Crow era, he endured physical assaults, a stolen title, bankruptcy, and numerous attempts to destroy his reputation. Four short years after successfully defending his title in the 42-round ''Greatest Fight of the Century,'' Joe Gans was dead of tuberculosis.

This biography features original round-by-round ringside telegraph reports of his most famous and controversial fights, a complete fight history, photographs, and early newspaper drawings and cartoons.