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Summary
Author Biography
Marc Tracy is a staff writer at the New Republic. Previously, he was a staff writer at Tablet magazine; the blog he edited there, The Scroll, won the 2011 National Magazine Award.
Table of Contents
Introduction | p. xi |
Daniel Mendoza: The King's Pugilist | p. 3 |
Max Nordau: Philosopher of the Muscle Jews | p. 13 |
Barney Sedran: Tiny Bailer | p. 17 |
Benny Leonard: Mama Said Knock You Out | p. 23 |
Mose Solomon: The Hunt for the Hebrew Ruth | p. 29 |
Whitey Bimstein: Cutman | p. 33 |
Sidney Franklin: Matador from Flatbush | p. 39 |
Arnold Rothstein: American Shylock | p. 47 |
Barney Ross: Kaddish for a Welterweight | p. 53 |
Marty Reisman: Ping-Pong Wizard | p. 59 |
Hank Greenberg: The Plot Against Greenberg? | p. 65 |
Helene Mayer: Fencing for Hitler | p. 71 |
Al Rosen: I'm Not Greenberg | p. 77 |
Sid Luckman: Hebrew Mind, Cossack Body | p. 83 |
Grigory Novak: Soviet Strongman | p. 90 |
Jack Molinas: The Point-Shaver | p. 96 |
Dolph Schayes: Power Forward | p. 101 |
Red Auerbach: The Coach Who Never Paid Retail | p. 107 |
Shirley Povich: Conscience of the Capital | p. 112 |
Sandy Koufax: Best Bar Mitzvah Guest Ever | p. 117 |
Bennie Muller: Voetbal After Auschwitz | p. 122 |
Marvin Miller: Three Strikes and a Walkout | p. 126 |
Jimmy Jacobs: Mike Tyson's Four-Wall Rabbi | p. 130 |
Joel Silver: Ultimate Producer | p. 137 |
Art Shamsky: Miracle Met | p. 142 |
Red Holzman: The Constant Gardner | p. 146 |
Bobby Fischer: The Unnatural | p. 151 |
Yossef Romano: Martyrs of Munich | p. 156 |
Ron Mix: The Righteous Tackle | p. 161 |
Mark Spitz: Pool Shark | p. 165 |
Robert Lipsyte: Lippy and Me | p. 173 |
Howard Cosell: The Mouth | p. 181 |
Nancy Lieberman: Lady Magic | p. 189 |
Renée Richards: Cross-Court Winner | p. 193 |
Shep Messing: Keeper of the Cosmos | p. 197 |
Daniel Okrent: Every Man's Fantasy | p. 203 |
Harold Solomon: The Moon-Bailer | p. 207 |
Al Davis: The Raider | p. 211 |
Harvey "Sifu" Sober: Harvey the Sensei | p. 217 |
Mathieu Schneider: Lord Stanley's Kiddush Cup | p. 222 |
Bud Selig: A Defense | p. 226 |
Corey Pavin: Putting for Jesus | p. 231 |
Kerri Strug: My Left Foot | p. 235 |
Bill Goldberg: Hezbollah's Favorite Wrestler | p. 241 |
Tamir Goodman: The Jewish Jordan | p. 245 |
Eyal Berkovic: Soccer Sabra | p. 249 |
Don Lerman: The Ben Franklin of Competitive Eating | p. 253 |
Adam Greenberg: Once-Hit Wonder | p. 258 |
Mark Cuban: The Twelve-Year-Old Owner | p. 263 |
Theo Epstein: The Baseball Genius Who Didn't Save the World | p. 269 |
Acknowledgments | p. 279 |
The Editors and Contributors | p. 281 |
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