Friday night fighter : Gaspar "Indio" Ortega and the golden age of television boxing /
Rondinone, Troy, 1973-
Friday night fighter : Gaspar "Indio" Ortega and the golden age of television boxing / Gaspar "Indio" Ortega and the golden age of television boxing Troy Rondinone. - Urbana, Ill. : University of Illinois Press, (c)2013. - 1 online resource
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.
9780252094668 9781299483231
2019716479
Ortega, Gaspar "Indio", 1935-
Boxing--Hispanic Americans--History.
Television broadcasting of sports--United States.
Sports--Hispanic Americans--History.
Boxing--History.--United States
Electronic Books.
GV1132 / .F753 2013
Friday night fighter : Gaspar "Indio" Ortega and the golden age of television boxing / Gaspar "Indio" Ortega and the golden age of television boxing Troy Rondinone. - Urbana, Ill. : University of Illinois Press, (c)2013. - 1 online resource
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.
9780252094668 9781299483231
2019716479
Ortega, Gaspar "Indio", 1935-
Boxing--Hispanic Americans--History.
Television broadcasting of sports--United States.
Sports--Hispanic Americans--History.
Boxing--History.--United States
Electronic Books.
GV1132 / .F753 2013