Battling Nelson, the Durable Dane: World Lightweight Champion, 1882-1954 by Baker, Mark Allen

Battling Nelson, the Durable Dane: World Lightweight Champion, 1882-1954 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781476663722)

Vendor: Mark Allen Baker
Product type: Books
Format: Paperback
$39.95
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Battling Nelson, the Durable Dane: World Lightweight Champion, 1882-1954 by Baker, Mark Allen

Battling Nelson, the Durable Dane: World Lightweight Champion, 1882-1954

$39.95
Battling Nelson, the Durable Dane: World Lightweight Champion, 1882-1954 by Baker, Mark Allen

Battling Nelson, the Durable Dane: World Lightweight Champion, 1882-1954

$39.95
Format: Paperback
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Oscar ""Battling"" Nelson (1882-1954) was perhaps the toughest professional boxer ever to enter the ring. Although a Hall of Fame inductee, Nelson remains a lesser known great of boxing lore. From the beginning of his career at 14, the Danish immigrant presented himself as a man of integrity who never smoked, drank or took a dive. In the ring and in public, Battling Nelson crafted a Renaissance man image as a lightweight champion, reporter, entertainer, real estate mogul, entrepreneur and ladies' man. The first ever champion in his weight class to mount a comeback, he strove to break new ground (even if he wasn't always successful). This book tells the story of a ring legend whose endurance was second to none and whose trilogy with Joe Gans is one of the great rivalries in sports history.

Author: Mark Allen Baker
ISBN-10: 1476663726
ISBN-13: 9781476663722
Publisher: McFarland & Company
Language: English
Published: 12/01/2016
Pages: 296
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 9.90h x 6.90w x 0.80d
By Mark Allen Baker
By Mark Allen Baker
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Mark Allen Baker, business executive and author of hundreds of articles and more than 25 books, is the only person to serve the International Boxing Hall of Fame as an author, historian, chairperson, sponsor, volunteer and biographer. He also serves on the Board of Directors of the Connecticut Boxing Hall of Fame, and was accorded a Lifetime Award of Merit by the State University of New York in 2022.

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