About the Author

Gary Youmans is a sports marketing consultant and has owned a minor league basketball team. He is coauthor of '59: The Story of the 1959 Syracuse National Championship Football Team, published by Syracuse University Press.

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Youmans’s descriptions of bouts, such as the legendary tussles with Boston hero Tony DeMarco, are enough to conjure vivid memories of the Gillette-sponsored ‘Friday Night Fights,’ on which Basilio would frequently appear. Thick with eye-catching photos, the book nails the brutish and criminal politics of the postwar fight game. To be a good boxer you have to have a type of mentality that is rare. You could say boxers are rare people and Carmen Basilio is the rarest of boxers. There has never been anyone quite like him. A stand-up guy who would outwork anybody to achieve his goal. He’s number one in my book.

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