Don Dunphy at Ringside

By Don Dunphy

New York during the summers of 1957 and 1966... Guy Prince was the son of a racketeer, Dean Teranova the son of a third rate conman. Their tale of love and innocence lost takes readers on an epic... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0805005307
• ISBN13: 9780805005301
• Release Date: January 1988
• Publisher: Henry Holt & Co
• Length: 289 Pages
• Weight: 1.11 lbs.

Customer Reviews

It wasn't a sport-it was a tether that tied me to my family

Baseball is not a game. Way more than that--it is a tether that anchors me to my Dad and him to his Dad. Crossing the generations like an Indy race car, it gives us common ground and makes us pals....if only for nine innings. In my childhood, there were two wonderful tethers. Besides The Grand Old Game, we had boxing. Dad and I could rattle on for hours -skipping through the decades chatting about Braddock or John L. Sullivan or the Brockton Blockbuster, Mr. Rocco Marciano------the real life Rocky. Sadly, it's gone today. When I mention a boxer to my adult children, they tell me that they like Pit Bulls better! 'Don Dunphy at Ringside' takes the reader back to those days when everyone knew the Heavyweight Champ of the world...and the fans knew that brutal battlers like Sugar Ray Robinson (pictured on the cover of the book with Dunphy) were quiet, humble gentlemen outside of the ring. Dunphy takes you back in time. Back to the Polo Grounds in the 1920's when the Mighty New York Giants battled the Powerhouse New York Yankees for THREE STRAIGHT SEASONS in the Subway (world) Series. Yes the fabled Brooklyn Dodgers and the hard-luck Red Sox are also in the mix. Don Dunphy was lucky enough to have been born during the pregnancy and birth of broadcast sports...radio and Dunphy were cutting their teeth on those 1920 world series games. Dunphy and others were inventing the art of broadcasting "blow by blow" descriptions of the chess matches that were being waged inside the square rings of Madison Square garden in New York and Boston Garden and other great early fight venues. This is a romping read about a quaint era of people who were bigger than life. Actually, people were much smaller back in the 1900's. Rocky Marciano, the great undefeated heavyweight champ, was about 184 pounds during his fighting days. Compare that to today's 250 pounders: and yet---it seems to me that the fighters of those days and the broadcasters too---were actually giants. Dunphy's book is a king-sized read.