Eddie Muller's THE DISTANCE, and SHADOW BOXER both feature
the fight scene in postwar San Francisco, with fictional
boxing columnist Billy Nichols as the protagonist.
Channing wrote:
> I'm currently enjoying Leonard Gardner's "Fat City"
about the seedy boxing world in Stockton,
> CA. And I recently read and loved Gerald Kersh's
"Night And the City" which had a good
> amount of seedy wrestling. Does anyone recommend any
other sports noir books? Or if
> there even are any? There's nothing more low-down
and gritty than a locker room, in a world
> where winning and losing is everything. Why aren't
there more noir sports stories? There
> have been quite a few noirish boxing movies, but
where are the books?
>
> Chan
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