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Friday night fighter : Gaspar "Indio" Ortega and the golden age of television boxing / Troy Rondinone.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Urbana, Ill. : University of Illinois Press, (c)2013.Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780252094668
  • 9781299483231
Other title:
  • Gaspar "Indio" Ortega and the golden age of television boxing
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • GV1132 .F753 2013
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Contents:
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
Chapter 12. The Ship Goes Down -- Chapter 13. Changing Times -- Epilogue: Nightmares -- A Note on Sources -- Notes -- Index
Summary: 'Friday Night Fighter' relives a lost moment in American postwar history, when boxing ruled as one of the nation's most widely televised sports.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

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 GameChapter 11. Bloodying the Sport -- Chapter 12. The Ship Goes Down -- Chapter 13. Changing Times -- Epilogue: Nightmares -- A Note on Sources -- Notes -- Index

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

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