The First Superstar (available in:
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Date: Apr 26, 2008 00:42:02 AM CST
Learn how modern sports as a major industry began in 1889, with the bare-knuckle fight between John L. Sullivan and Jake Kilrain. Sullivan was the biggest sports star in history--so big that the (illegal) fight made coast to coast headlines for months. Inventor of the knock-out punch and world's greatest fighter, Sullivan was also the word's most generous man and its greatest drunk. His enemies forced a bare-knuckle fight in July, near New Orleans, where temperature and unlimited rounds seemed sure to cook him. This is the first account of Sullivan's last desperate seven weeks, when, forty pounds overweight and completely untrained, he let the day's greatest physical culturalist, William Muldoon, try to save him.
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