<p class=MsoNormal><span><b>Charles Farrell's many personal encounters questions insights and&#10;experiences as an observer of the sport&#8230; add a multifaceted richness to [this]&#10;essay collection&#8230;. Readers will find its vibrant psychological social&#10;political and personal revelations are just the ticket for a read that is&#10;solid in its facts unexpected in its focus and connections and thoroughly&#10;delightful in its novel approach to boxing.</b></span><b>-<i>Midwest Book Review</i></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span>Mitch &#34;Blood&#34; Green had&#10;more things going for him to make big money in boxing than nearly any fighter&#10;in history. A six-foot-six 225-pound heavyweight with a chiseled physique and&#10;a traffic-stopping look Green had ironclad street credibility&#8212;he was the gang leader&#10;of the Black Spades&#8212;and four New York Golden Gloves heavyweight titles.</span></p>&#10;&#10;<p class=MsoNormal><span>But his penchant for&#10;mayhem drugs and chaos while keeping him in the news torpedoed his pro boxing&#10;career. He lost a high-profile decision to Mike Tyson at Madison Square Garden&#10;got into a tabloid-grabbing late-night street fight with Tyson at an&#10;after-hours boutique in Harlem and then disappeared.</span><span></span></p>&#10;&#10;<p class=MsoNormal><span>Until Charles Farrell&#10;found him.</span></p>&#10;&#10;<p class=MsoNormal><span>In <i>The Legend of Mitch &#34;Blood&#34; Green and Other Boxing Essays</i> Farrell captures life in the boxing&#10;business from its deepest interior and offers additional portraits of characters&#10;as wide-ranging as Donald Trump Floyd Patterson Bert Cooper Charley Burley Peter&#10;McNeeley and Muhammad Ali. Trenchant fearless and often flat-out funny there has never&#10;been a boxing book like this and there will never be another.</span><span></span></p>
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