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Friday Night Fighter : Gaspar "Indio" Ortega and the Golden Age of Television Boxing /

'Friday Night Fighter' relives a lost moment in American postwar history, when boxing ruled as one of the nation's most widely televised sports.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rondinone, Troy, 1973- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Urbana, Ill. : University of Illinois Press, 2013.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Preface: Boxing Lessons -- Introduction: Fight Night -- Part I. Gladiators of the Age of Contentment -- Chapter 1. â€oeAnd the Winnerâ€?Television!â€? -- Chapter 2. â€oeThe Regular Friday Coaxial Bloodbathâ€? -- Chapter 3. The Friday Night Fighters -- Part II. Indio -- Chapter 4. The Mexamerican -- Chapter 5. The Discovery of New York -- Chapter 6. Climb -- Chapter 7. The Tournament -- Chapter 8 .The Secret Government -- Chapter 9. Trouble -- Chapter 10. The Shot 
505 0 |a Part III. The Hardest GameChapter 11. Bloodying the Sport -- Chapter 12. The Ship Goes Down -- Chapter 13. Changing Times -- Epilogue: Nightmares -- A Note on Sources -- Notes -- Index 
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