Description
Schulberg, Budd ‘Loser and Still Champion, Muhammad Ali’ 1972 1st edition. Doubleday & Company, Inc., Garden City, New York. 158-pages. VG in VG non-price clipped $5.95 priced mylar protected dust jacket. Handwritten name and book stamp of longtime South African boxing collector/historian, J. Karel de Vries on the frontispiece.
Published in 1972 by Doubleday & Company, Inc., Loser and Still Champion: Muhammad Ali is a notable work of sports journalism and cultural commentary by Academy Award-winning screenwriter and legendary boxing writer Budd Schulberg.
Physical and Bibliographic Details:
• Author: Budd Schulberg
• Publisher: Doubleday & Company, Inc. (Garden City, NY)
• Publication Year: 1972
• Binding: Hardcover, bound in original red cloth with stamped lettering
• Page Count: 158 pages
• Illustrations: Features a selection of black-and-white photographs documenting Ali’s career and entourage.
Content and Overview:
• Focus: The book centers around Muhammad Ali, capturing his early career, his controversial exile from the sport due to his draft refusal, his return to the ring, and his grueling 15-round loss to Joe Frazier in the 1971 “Fight of the Century”.
• Perspective: Having traveled directly with Ali’s entourage and analyzed his matches from ringside, Schulberg crafts an intimate insider profile.
• Themes: Beyond the athletic technicalities of the ring, Schulberg frames Ali not just as an individual prizefighter, but as a towering, polarizing social symbol reflecting the political and cultural anxieties of mid-20th-century America
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