BATTLING JACK: You Gotta Fight Back
Book ID/图书代码： 0843.0005B09621
English Summary/英文概要： ‘Battling’ Jack Turpin is the last surviving member of his generation of one of the world’s most famous and popular boxing families. From an impoverished background, he and his brothers were lured into the ring by the excitement and gladiatorial glamour the sport seemed to promise. After starting out in a homemade backstreet gymnasium, the Turpin brothers became the first major black presence in British boxing and punched their way into the record books. Dick, the eldest brother, overcame the colour bar imposed by the British Boxing Board of Control and became the first black man ever to hold the middleweight title. The youngest brother, Randolph, rose to even greater heights when he travelled to New York and defeated the heavyweight champion Sugar Ray Robinson to take the World title. BATTLING JACK offers a ringside seat at heroic battles and comic encounters as Turpin vividly recalls the sport, sex and slapstick of life as a journeyman boxer. He takes us behind the scenes of a scandal that rocked the sporting world and into his confidence over the mystery that surrounds his younger brother’s death by gunshot. Now almost 80 years old, Jack Turpin is as charismatic and feisty as ever and his life story is the extraordinary tale of a man whose indomitable spirit has out-stared ignorance and prejudice, tasted triumph and celebrity, and endured hardship and tragedy.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： Jack Turpin是这个世界顶级拳击家族里的同辈人中最后一位幸存者。出生贫寒的Jack弟兄在这个竞技体育所带来的兴奋感以及极富争议的魅力的驱使下，走进了拳击台。他们是从一间简陋的体操馆里打出自己的处女秀，在挥洒了无数汗滴、付出巨大辛苦之后，Turpin兄弟很快就成了全英拳击台上数一数二的黑人拳击手，并屡屡打破世界记录。长兄Dick克服了英国拳击运动管理委员会设定的种族肤色限制，并成了第一位获得中量级冠军头衔的黑人。最小的弟弟Randolph更是不得了，他居然还横渡到纽约，击败了重量级冠军Sugar Ray Robinson，获得了世界冠军的头衔。Jackie带我们走进了那场轰动了体坛的绯闻事件的背后，以及围绕着他弟弟枪杀事件的重重迷雾。现在年近80的Jack还是魅力不减当年、风采依旧，他的故事折射了百折不挠的斗志力战胜了无知和偏见、品尝了胜利和名誉，饱受了创伤和灾难。
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