{"product_id":"the-hardest-game-mcilvanney-on-boxing","title":"The Hardest Game : McIlvanney on Boxing","description":"\u003cp\u003eThirty years of ringside reporting from one of the worlds most honored sportswriters A living legend on both sides of the Atlantic  British sportswriter Hugh McIlvanney is best known for his incisive ringside boxing commentaries. Employing a writing style as muscular as it is graceful  McIlvanney never fails to infect the reader with his enthusiasm and sense of awe for the sport  while at the same time revealing the deeper truths at work in all such extreme expressions of human will and physical prowess. As one critic put it  \"The genius of McIlvanney is his ability to magnify and precisely delineate those elements of sport that contain fundamental truths about the human condition.\" First published in 1983 to great acclaim  this sport classic is reprinted with the addition of recent dispatches to span 30 years of ringside reporting. The Hardest Game includes McIlvanneys commentaries on such immortal bouts as \"The Rumble in the Jungle\" (Foreman vs. Ali  Zaire  1974) and \"The Thriller in Manila\" (Ali vs. Frazier  Philippines  1975)  and the most memorable fights in the careers of Mike Tyson  Evander Holyfield  Lennox Lewis  and others. \"Anyone who admires writing as muscular as it is graceful should buy this book.\" -- The Daily Telegraph\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44974551957557,"sku":"ByrdShop_0658021540","price":90.42,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780658021541.jpg?v=1770663588","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-hardest-game-mcilvanney-on-boxing","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}