Smokestack Lightning: Harry Greb, 1919
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"Springs Toledo is the best boxing writer working today, and perhaps the best sportswriter, period. His work combines the rarest of attributes: a literary and poetic grasp of the English language, and a detailed and rigorous understanding of history." --Dr. David Crawford Jones, Ohio State University
In January 1919, a Pittsburgh prizefighter married an ex-chorus girl and with her at his side, proclaimed himself ready to thrash "the whole world." It was no idle threat. Harry Greb embarked on an unparalleled 45-0-0 campaign that year, often fighting once, twice, and sometimes three times a week. His motto? "All-comers." His objective? To prove himself the superior of every rival within reach--including Jack Dempsey. By December 1919, Greb was pressing his shoulder up against the limits of human endurance, and moving it. Smokestack Lightning brings you back to an America in the aftermath of war, at the dawn of the Jazz Age and the brink of Prohibition. It is a unique and heavily-researched encounter with the greatest fury fighter of the 20th century. Meet him mid-stride.
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