{"product_id":"the-legend-of-mitch-blood-charles-farrell-9781949590807","title":"The Legend of Mitch Blood Green and Other Boxing Essays","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"With his trademark insider acuity, unsentimental compassion, and faultless eye and ear, Charles Farrell gives us an indelible portrait of one of boxing's great characters and a definitive account of what happens when talent runs afoul of the way things work in the world.\"--Carlo Rotella, contributor to \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e and author of \u003ci\u003eCut Time: An Education at the Fights\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eMitch 'Blood' Green had\u003cbr\u003emore things going for him to make big money in boxing than nearly any fighter\u003cbr\u003ein history. A six-foot-six, 225-pound heavyweight with a chiseled physique and\u003cbr\u003ea traffic-stopping look, Green had street credibility for days--he was the gang leader\u003cbr\u003eof the Black Spades--and four New York Golden Gloves heavyweight titles. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut his penchant for\u003cbr\u003emayhem, drugs, and chaos, while keeping him in the news, torpedoed his pro boxing\u003cbr\u003ecareer. He lost a high-profile decision to Mike Tyson at Madison Square Garden, \u003cbr\u003egot into a tabloid-grabbing late-night street fight with Tyson at an\u003cbr\u003eafter-hours boutique in Harlem, and then disappeared. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eUntil Charles Farrell\u003cbr\u003efound him. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Legend of Mitch \"Blood\" Green and Other Boxing Essays\u003c\/i\u003e, Farrell captures life in the boxing\u003cbr\u003ebusiness from its deepest interior, and offers additional portraits of characters\u003cbr\u003eas wide-ranging as Donald Trump, Floyd Patterson, Bert Cooper, Charley Burley, Peter\u003cbr\u003eMcNeeley, and Muhammad Ali. Trenchant, fearless, and often flat-out funny, there has never\u003cbr\u003ebeen a boxing book like this, and there will never be another.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Charles Farrell\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1949590801\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781949590807\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Hamilcar Publications\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/25\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Charles Farrell","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46640791060735,"sku":"9781949590807","price":34.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c30d23d2-86cb-4b36-ab92-8e14d76a00a9.jpg?v=1740670529","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-legend-of-mitch-blood-charles-farrell-9781949590807","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}