Larry Merchant
Name: Larry Merchant
Favorite Book: "The Killings of Stanley Ketchel" by James Carlos Blake "I got a big kick, or punch, out of a recent read, the novelization of the life and times of the James Dean of boxing, "The Killings of Stanley Ketchel" by John Carlos Blake. A century ago, before Jack Dempsey exploded out of the west, Ketchel was already a mythic figure for his middleweight-heavyweight melodrama with Jack Johnson, and for his wild life and tabloid death. As John Lardner wrote, "He was shot dead having breakfast with a woman not his wife.'" |