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Jacobs Beach: The Mob, the Garden and the Golden Age of Boxing
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Paperback book by Kevin Mitchell (Author)
Overview
Gangsters have always infected fight game. At the end of the First World War, through Prohibition, and into the 1930s, the Mob emerged as a poisonous force, threatening to ravage the sport. But it was only when cutthroat Madison Square Garden promoter Mike Jacobs, chieftain of a notorious patch of Manhattan pavement called “Jacobs Beach,” stepped aside that the real devil appeared—former Murder, Inc. killer and underworld power broker Frankie Carbo, a man known to many simply as “Mr. Gray.”
And Carbo wasn’t alone. Along with a crooked cast of characters that included a rich playboy and an urbane lawyer, he controlled boxing through most of the 1950s, with the help of a diabolical deputy, Francis “Blinky” Palermo, who did much of Mr. Gray’s dirty work, reportedly drugging fighters and robbing them blind. Not until 1961, when Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy shipped Carbo and Palermo to jail for twenty-five years, did it all come crashing down.
Enriched by the recollections of some of the men who were there, Kevin Mitchell’s Jacobs Beach offers a gripping, noirish look at boxing and organized crime in postwar New York City—and reveals the fading glamour of both.
This revised edition includes a foreword by Mike Stanton, bestselling author of Unbeaten: Rocky Marciano’s Fight for Perfection in a Crooked World (Henry Holt, 2018).
Praise
“This is as much a history of twentieth-century boxing as it is a true-crime story; it will please fight enthusiasts and mafia mavens equally”—Library Journal
“Brings to life the fight world of that era. Mr. Mitchell’s account is full of memorably drawn scenes, and the stories we haven’t heard before make Jacobs Beach a cigar-chomping read.”—Wall Street Journal
About the Author
Kevin Mitchell is the boxing and tennis correspondent for The Observer and The Guardian. He is the author of War, Baby, which was shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year, the co-author of Frank Bruno’s autobiography Frank, which won the Best Autobiography category of the British Sports Book Awards, and author of Jacobs Beach: The Mob, the Garden and the Golden Age of Boxing (Hamilcar Publications 2019).
Details
Publisher: Hamilcar Publications; 2nd edition (October 15, 2019)
Language: English
Paperback: 288 pages
ISBN-13: 978-1949590029
Item Weight: 1 lb (0.45 kg)
Dimensions: 6 x 9 x 0.5 inches (15.2 x 22.9 x 1.3 cm)
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