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Cinderella Man : James J. Braddock, Max Baer, and the greatest upset in boxing history /

Boxing's true Cinderella story: James J. Braddock, dubbed "Cinderella Man" by Damon Runyon, was a once promising light heavyweight for whom a string of losses and a broken right hand happened to coincide with the Great Crash of 1929. With one good hand, he was forced to labor on the d...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Schaap, Jeremy
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2005.
Subjects:
Braddock, James J. > (James Joseph), > 1905-1974.
Baer, Max, > 1909-1959.
Boxers (Sports) > United States > Biography.
Sports rivalries > United States.

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