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Record Nr.

UNINA9910779659403321

Autore

Rondinone Troy <1973->

Titolo

Friday Night Fighter [[electronic resource] ] : Gaspar "Indio" Ortega and the Golden Age of Television Boxing / / Troy Rondinone

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Urbana, IL, : University of Illinois Press, 2013

ISBN

1-299-48323-2

0-252-09466-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (305 p.)

Disciplina

796.83

Soggetti

Boxing - United States - History

Sports - Hispanic Americans - History

Television broadcasting of sports - United States

Boxing - Hispanic Americans - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Cover""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Illustrations""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Preface: Boxing Lessons""; ""Introduction: Fight Night""; ""Part I. Gladiators of the Age of Contentment""; ""Chapter 1. “And the Winner�Television!�""; ""Chapter 2. “The Regular Friday Coaxial Bloodbath�""; ""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""

""Part III. The Hardest Game""""Chapter 11. Bloodying the Sport""; ""Chapter 12. The Ship Goes Down""; ""Chapter 13. Changing Times""; ""Epilogue: Nightmares""; ""A Note on Sources""; ""Notes""; ""Index""

Sommario/riassunto

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