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The legendary Harry Greb stepped into the ring more than 300 times from 1913 to 1926, defeated opponents who outweighed him by more than 30 pounds, held the middleweight and light heavyweight titles and beat every Hall of Fame boxer he ever fought. Dubbed "the Pittsburgh Windmill" because of his manic, freewheeling style in the ring, Greb also crossed racial lines, taking on all comers regardless of color. An injury in the ring led to Greb's gradually going blind in one eye and should have ended his career, but he kept his condition secret and fought on. Tragically, the indomitable fighter would be dead by the age of 32, felled by complications during minor surgery.
This biography of one of the toughest boxers of all time includes interviews, family recollections, modern doctors' analyses of Greb's eye injury and more than 120 rare photographs, as well as a complete fight record and round-by-round descriptions of his most famous fights.
- Sales Rank: #729913 in eBooks
- Published on: 2009-01-12
- Released on: 2009-01-12
- Format: Kindle eBook
Review
"Fans of boxing's great middleweight, Harry Greb, are in for a treat...detailed...Paxton's work will rekindle the reader's interest in the exploits of Fearless Harry...masterfully written...well researched...interesting read...abundance of photographs...highly recommend" --Cyber Boxing Zone
"Paxton knows his subject so well that he is able to dispel most of the myths and still tell an engrossing story." --Dublin's Evening Herald
"There may not be a huge audience out there for a biography of Harry Greb, but Bill Paxton has put together a good one." --The Ring
"The author deserves credit for the massive amount of research that went into his work. --secondsout.com
"There may not be a huge audience out there for a biography of Harry Greb, but Bill Paxton has put together a good one." --The Ring
"The author deserves credit for the massive amount of research that went into his work. --secondsout.com
"There may not be a huge audience out there for a biography of Harry Greb, but Bill Paxton has put together a good one." --The Ring
About the Author
Bill Paxton is a toy and game inventor in Chicago. He operates the Harry Greb Web site.
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16 of 17 people found the following review helpful.
Not as satisfying as finding a Greb film, but a great read
By feedthecat
As no fight films of this fantastic pugilist are known to exist, Bill Paxton's new bio of the great Harry Greb (b. 1894, d. 1926, & fought from 1913 to 1926) is a godsend for hardcore fans of the sweet science. I have known of Greb for years - indeed, more than a decade before Paxton created his [...] website in 1996 - and have read many magazine and web articles about him, but it's always been frustrating that no in-depth book about this boxing immortal had been written. Until now.
Paxton does a great job of informing the reader not only about Greb the man, but also of Greb the fighter, including his fighting style and the boxing techniques that he utilized, which is extremely interesting since, as I noted above, no films of any of his 299 - 299! - official pro bouts are extant. Relying mainly on contemporary newspaper accounts of his fights, Paxton provides as vivid a description of what it was like to face the "Pittsburgh Windmill"/"Human Windmill"/"Smoke City Wildcat" as is possible by such means. Furthermore, the author meticulously addresses many of the myths regarding the fighter that legendary heavyweight champion Jack Dempsey was scared to tackle (interestingly, while the "Manassa Mauler" wouldn't give Greb a title shot, he did defend his crown against several fighters whom Greb, a [natural] middleweight, had already decisively beaten).
One of these myths is that Greb was one of the "dirtiest" fighters of all-time. Here, Paxton elucidates that Greb only really started employing blatantly foul tactics after losing the sight of his right eye (Greb fought the last five years of his career with this handicap) and, even then, only employed the most flagrant and damaging of them AFTER an opponent had begun fouling HIM. Ironically, while Greb did, indeed, utilize various dubious techniques to gain an advantage, he, nonetheless, possessed great sportsmanship and a strong sense of fairness, as well as integrity. To wit: despite employing many foul tactics during his title defense against Mickey Walker, such as pushing his upper body through the ropes with one hand and hitting him with the other, Greb still showed an out-on-his-feet "Toy Bulldog" to his corner at the end of the fourteenth round; Greb would almost always help an opponent who had slipped to the canvas back to his feet; he gave Fay Kaiser a shot at his middleweight title largely because they had fought EIGHT times before Greb won the crown; and he took on Theodore "Tiger" Flowers in a title defense, the FIRST title shot granted to an African-American by a Caucasian-American world champion since the heavyweight title reign of the controversial and highly unpopular (among whites) Jack Johnson, the first African-American to hold that crown.
About the only myths about Greb that Paxton doesn't address are of him always leaving the light on when going to sleep after becoming blind in his right eye, of Greb losing some of the sight in his "good" left eye during the last couple of years of his career (& life), and of Harry Wills, a giant African-American whom Dempsey also "ducked", not wanting to fight Greb (incidentally, it would have been nice if the author had been able to find out and print what Wills, Sam Langford, Jack Blackburn, Kid Norfolk, and other great African-American contemporaries had to say about Greb's style and abilities - almost all of the fighters quoted by Paxton as to Greb's ability, etc were white).
Paxton provides Greb's complete ring record and measurements at the end of the book and the chapter titles are as follows: 1. From a Street Corner to a Ring Corner; 2. The Early Road of Trials; 3. Icky's Busy Year ("Icky" was Greb's childhood nickname); 4. In the Navy; 5. First Year of Marriage and the #45 (Greb fought an all-time record 45 bouts in 1919); 6. Jack Dempsey and the Heavyweights; 7. A Time for Change; 8. A City Celebrates; 9. All Good Things; 10. Achieving the Goal - The Middleweight Championship; 11. Defending the Title; 12. The Tunney Rematches; 13. The Champion Playboy; 14. The Bulldog Meets the Windmill; 15. The Best of His Time; 16. The Tragic Hero; & 17. The Myths Grow While the Legend Fades.
By the by, anyone who enjoyed this book and would like to know more about Greb, his great rival Gene Tunney, and Dempsey ought to get themselves a copy of Jack Cavanaugh's Tunney: Boxing's Brainiest Champ and His Upset of the Great Jack Dempsey, which is sold here on Amazon.com for the ludicrously low price of $12 and change.
11 of 12 people found the following review helpful.
A "Fearless" Biography
By T. Kurtzer
A "Fearless" biography of the relatively unknown but incredible boxer, Harry Greb.
I've been looking forward to a book that puts together all of the pieces of Greb's incredible life since I discovered the harrygreb.com website about 8 years ago. It makes so much sense that the the book I have been waiting for has been written by the very creator of that website.
The book is incredibly well researched and documented. There are over 120 amazing and rare photographs, (most of which are not on the above mentioned Greb website) and almost 800 end-notes! It seems that every fact and statement is backed up with the source, mostly previously uncovered newspaper documentation. The facts are not just stated, but woven into a story that gives an understanding into what made Greb tick. Whenever a fight venue, location or opponent is discussed in the text usually a great photograph to goes along with it.
"The Fearless Harry Greb" is more than just an interesting biography and analysis of the mysterious Greb, however. It reads like an "American Experience" in book form. The descriptions of Greb's early years are full of details of what life was like during the early 20th century.
An example of the depth of research is the chapter that delves into the mystery behind Greb's blindness. One of the remarkable aspects of his life and proof of his temerity is that he fought for years while blind in his right eye! Greb had to keep this a secret from his opponents, of course, so very little information about how and when this occurred has been known. This has always been one of the mysteries behind the Greb legend. Paxton has not only uncovered when and how this injury occurred, but has also done in depth research and consultations with retinal detachment surgeons who have analyzed and described the structural damages that happened to Greb's eye. A unique and interesting diagram further explains the progression and type of damage that eventually blinded Greb.
Although written for boxing scholars and historians (as evidenced by the documented and referenced chapter notes) I would recommend "The Fearless Harry Greb" to any reader that is interested in history, athletic triumph over adversity or just an amazing story.
When is the movie coming out about this truly heroic, astonishing and unknown athlete?!
9 of 10 people found the following review helpful.
An important book for boxing
By Paul Kennedy
Mr. Paxton has written a much-needed biography of Greb that is a great read. To call it "well-researched" doesn't do it justice. He has painstakingly cleared up all of the myths about the great Harry Greb in a book that is easy to read and holds interest throughout. I am the author of Billy Conn the Pittsburgh Kid, so I know a lot about researching old documents from the pre-Internet age. Paxton has done a superb job of bringing a fascinating character to life and describing the city of Pittsburgh in the early 20th century. This is an important book in the field of boxing history. Greb may well be the greatest fighter in the history of the sport, but is not well-known because he fought so long ago. No boxing fan's collection is complete without it.
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