{"product_id":"9781949590807-the-legend-of-mitch-green","title":"The Legend of Mitch Green","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAnd Other Boxing Essays\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e“Charles Farrell’s many personal encounters, questions, insights, andexperiences as an observer of the sport… add a multifaceted richness to [this]essay collection…. Readers will find its vibrant psychological, social,political, and personal revelations are just the ticket for a read that issolid in its facts, unexpected in its focus and connections, and thoroughlydelightful in its novel approach to boxing.”\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eMidwest Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMitch \"Blood\" Green hadmore things going for him to make big money in boxing than nearly any fighterin history. A six-foot-six, 225-pound heavyweight with a chiseled physique anda traffic-stopping look, Green had ironclad street credibility—he was the gang leaderof the Black Spades—and four New York Golden Gloves heavyweight titles.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBut his penchant formayhem, drugs, and chaos, while keeping him in the news, torpedoed his pro boxingcareer. He lost a high-profile decision to Mike Tyson at Madison Square Garden,got into a tabloid-grabbing late-night street fight with Tyson at anafter-hours boutique in Harlem, and then disappeared.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUntil Charles Farrellfound him.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Legend of Mitch \"Blood\" Green and Other Boxing Essays\u003c\/i\u003e, Farrell captures life in the boxingbusiness from its deepest interior, and offers additional portraits of charactersas wide-ranging as Donald Trump, Floyd Patterson, Bert Cooper, Charley Burley, PeterMcNeeley, and Muhammad Ali. Trenchant, fearless, and often flat-out funny, there has neverbeen a boxing book like this, and there will never be another.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57059027943798,"sku":"9781949590807","price":27.98,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_34526650.jpg?v=1768373356","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781949590807-the-legend-of-mitch-green","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}