Whitechapel Whirlwind
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The Jack Kid Berg Story
Description
Jack Kid Berg dominated boxing in the early 1930s like no other British-born boxer before or since. The Whitechapel Whirlwind features exclusive interviews with Berg in the years before his death in 1991, and makes deft use of eyewitness accounts, newspaper cartoons, statistics and photos of Jack's 200-plus fights.
About the author
John Harding has chronicled the lives of footballers Billy Meredith and Alex James, poet Ralph Hodgson and playwright Shelagh Delaney. He is the author of Lonsdale's Belt: Boxing's Most Coveted Prize; Behind the Glory, the official history of the Professional Footballers' Association; and Living To Play, a study of the off-field lives of professional soccer stars since the 1880s. John has contributed to Boxing News, Blizzard and Time Out.