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Jacobs Beach: The Mob, the Garden and the Golden Age of Boxing Paperback - 2019
by Kevin Mitchell; Foreword by Mike Stanton
From the rear cover
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.
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- Title Jacobs Beach: The Mob, the Garden and the Golden Age of Boxing
- Author Kevin Mitchell; Foreword by Mike Stanton
- Binding Paperback
- Pages 288
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Hamilcar Publications
- Date 2019-10-15
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
- ISBN 9781949590029 / 194959002X
- Weight 1 lbs (0.45 kg)
- Dimensions 8.9 x 6 x 1 in (22.61 x 15.24 x 2.54 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Mid-Atlantic
- Library of Congress subjects History, Gangsters
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2018964155
- Dewey Decimal Code 796.830
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