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

• Autore: Rondinone Troy <1973->
• Pubblicazione: Urbana, IL, : University of Illinois Press, 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (305 p.)
• Disciplina: 796.83
• Soggetto topico: Boxing - United States - History; Sports - Hispanic Americans - History; Television broadcasting of sports - United States; Boxing - Hispanic Americans - History
• 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 Winnerâ€?Television!â€?""; ""Chapter 2. “The 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"" ; ""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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Friday Night Fighter
• ISBN: 1-299-48323-2; 0-252-09466-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910779659403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II