Sparring with Hemingway: And Other Legends of the Fight Game - Budd Schulberg

'Sparring With Hemingway and Other Legends of the Fight Game' is a collection of boxing journalism by Budd Schulberg - who has written several novels and screenplays - that spans 75 years from the author meeting Ernest Hemingway through to old time greats like Joue Louis and Sugar Ray Robinson and right up to the modern era with names like Mike Tyson and Evander Holyfield. There are 30 articles and many were written at the time these events happened for different magazines and newspapers. Sparring With Hemingway was first published in 1997 and my paperback copy runs to 285 pages. The book begins with an interesting chapter where the author recalls ...  Read the complete review