The best boxing book ever written was a book of short stories by FX Toole called "Rope Burns, Stories from the Corner". I have given it to a couple of friends of mine in boxing including pros and high ranked amateurs and they all loved it (they weren't big readers). "Million Dollar Baby" was one of the stories in the book but not the best one (maybe "Black Jew" or "Fighting in Philly"). The second best boxing book of all time was "The Professional" by W.C. Heinz. The premise of Heinz's book was that everything must fall into place in order to win a championship (in and out of the ring) and lots of things are not directly within a fighter's control (but how they react is). I read many others, including "Fat City" but thought it was over rated. Does anybody have any others?
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