Once There Were Giants: The Golden Age of Heavyweight Boxing

"A celebration and memorial of the greatest era of heavyweight fighters from 1962 to 1997, as witnessed ringside by an International Boxing Hall of Fame sportswriter"--Publisher's website.

Author: Jerry Izenberg
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
Published: 02/07/2017
Pages: 252
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.10d
ISBN13: 9781510714748
ISBN10: 151071474X
BISAC Categories:
- Sports & Recreation | Boxing
- Sports & Recreation | History
- History | Social History

About the Author
Jerry Izenberg has been a sportswriter and columnist at the Star-Ledger for fifty-four of his sixty-five years in the business. He has been inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame, the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Hall of Fame, and the Sports Hall of Fame of New Jersey, and he is the only sportswriter to be inducted into the New Jersey Literary Hall of Fame. He won the Associated Press's Red Smith Award for distinguished contributions to sports journalism as well as the Fleischer Award for Boxing Journalism. Izenberg has covered fifty Kentucky Derbies and is one of the two sports columnists to have covered all fifty Super Bowls. He is married with four children and nine grandchildren. He lives in Henderson, Nevada.