Sports & Recreation:

Life in the Ring
Lessons and Inspiration from the Sport of Boxing
Written by John Oden
Preface by Bert Sugar

Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: September 29, 2009
Price: $15.00

Much more than a book on boxing. Life in the Ring is equally historical, literary, and inspirational. Truly a one-of-a-kind book.

There is no sport more unforgiving than boxing. Boxing represents the best of who we are as individuals. Those who have participated in the sport, at any level, can use the... Read more >

Life in the Ring
Lessons and Inspiration from the Sport of Boxing
Written by John Oden

Format: eBook
On Sale: September 29, 2009
Price: $9.99

Much more than a book on boxing. Life in the Ring is equally historical, literary, and inspirational. Truly a one-of-a-kind book.

There is no sport more unforgiving than boxing. Boxing represents the best of who we are as individuals. Those who have participated in the sport, at any level, can use the... Read more >

Barney Ross
The Life of a Jewish Fighter
Written by Douglas Century

Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: August 11, 2009
Price: $12.95

Born Dov-Ber Rasofsky to Eastern European immigrant parents, Barney Ross grew up in a tough Chicago neighborhood and witnessed his father’s murder, his mother’s nervous breakdown, and the dispatching of his three younger siblings to an orphanage, all before he turned fourteen. To make enough money to reunite the family, Ross... Read more >

Barney Ross
The Life of a Jewish Fighter
Written by Douglas Century

Format: eBook
On Sale: August 11, 2009
Price: $12.95

Born Dov-Ber Rasofsky to Eastern European immigrant parents, Barney Ross grew up in a tough Chicago neighborhood and witnessed his father’s murder, his mother’s nervous breakdown, and the dispatching of his three younger siblings to an orphanage, all before he turned fourteen. To make enough money to reunite the family, Ross... Read more >

Beyond Glory
Joe Louis vs. Max Schmeling, and a World on the Brink
Written by David Margolick

Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
On Sale: October 10, 2006
Price: $15.95

Nothing in the annals of sports has aroused more passion than the heavyweight fights in New York in 1936 and 1938 between Joe Louis and Max Schmeling — bouts that symbolized the hopes, hatreds, and fears of a world moving toward total war. Acclaimed journalist David Margolick takes us into the... Read more >

Barney Ross

Written by Douglas Century

Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: February 7, 2006
Price: $19.95

Born Dov-Ber Rasofsky to Eastern European immigrant parents, Barney Ross grew up in a tough Chicago neighborhood and witnessed his father’s murder, his mother’s nervous breakdown, and the dispatching of his three younger siblings to an orphanage, all before he turned fourteen. To make enough money to reunite the family, Ross... Read more >

White Collar Boxing
One Man's Journey from the Office to the Ring
Written by John E. Oden

Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: October 6, 2005
Price: $24.95

Fists, fury and the sweet science of white collar boxing.

From elite boarding schools to executive boardrooms, white collar boxing has never been more popular. With its roots in the English aristocracy, the "Sweet Science" is gaining fans among the alpha males (and females) of industry, banking, finance, and law.

Now white collar... Read more >

Cinderella Man
James J. Braddock, Max Baer and the Greatest Upset in Boxing History
Written by Jeremy Schaap
Read by Grover Gardner

Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: April 25, 2005
Price: $17.50

James J. Braddock, dubbed “Cinderella Man” by Damon Runyon, was a once promising light heavyweight for whom a string of losses in the ring and a broken right hand happened to coincide with the Great Crash. With one good hand, Braddock was forced to labor on the docks of Hoboken. Only... Read more >