Mark Kram
Author
Publisher
ECCO, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
History will remember the rivalry of Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali as one for the ages. A trilogy of extraordinary fights that transcended the world of sports and crossed into a sociocultural drama that divided the country. Joe Frazier was a much more complex figure than just his rivalry with Ali would suggest. In this riveting and nuanced portrayal, acclaimed sportswriter Mark Kram, Jr. unlinks Frazier from Ali and for the first time gives a full-bodied...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
The author tells the story of the Ali-Frazier matchup in Manila. "When the 'Thrilla in Manila' was over, the hype no longer mattered: one man was left with a ruin of a life; the other was battered to his soul."--Jacket.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Winner of the 2013 PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing, Like Any Normal Day is a profound, powerful narrative of a golden boy's tragedy, a woman's unlived life, and a brother's complicated devotion.
In the mid-1970s, brothers Buddy and Jimmy Miley were close, both on the verge of impressive athletic careers. A promising high school quarterback, Buddy's potential was cut short by an injury that left him quadriplegic. Immobile and imprisoned...
