On Boxing
by Joyce Carol Oates | 
Shadow Box
by George Plimpton | 
A Neutral Corner
by A. J. Liebling | 
Cinderella Man
by Jeremy Schaap |
Four Kings
by George Kimball |
Beyond Glory
by David Margolick | 
The Devil and Sonny Liston
by Nick Tosches | 
The Fight
by Norman Mailer | 
Ghosts of Manila
by Mark Kram | 
Muhammad Ali
by Thomas Hauser |
Sting Like a Bee
by Jose Torres | 
Showtime
by Jeff Pearlman | 
Among the Thugs
by Bill Buford | 
Undisputed Truth
by Mike Tyson |
A Flame of Pure Fire
by Roger Kahn | 
King of the World
by David Remnick |
The Greatest
by Muhammad Ali | 
Soccer in Sun and Shadow
by Eduardo Galeano | 
The Match
by Mark Frost | 
Friday Night Lights
by H. G. Bissinger |
A.J. Liebling's classic New Yorker pieces on the "sweet science of bruising" bring vividly to life the boxing world as it once was. It depicts the great events of boxing's American heyday: Sugar Ray Robinson's dramatic comeback, Rocky Marciano's rise to prominence, Joe Louis's unfortunate decline. Liebling never fails to find the human story behind the fight, and he evokes the atmosphere in the arena as distinctly as he does the goings-on in the ring--a combination that prompted Sports Illustrated to name The Sweet Science the best American sports book of all time.