Gary B. Youmans is a sports marketing consultant and has owned a minor league basketball team. He is coauthor of ’59: The Story of the 1959 Syracuse National Championship Football Team and ’63: The Story of the 1963 World Championship Chicago Bears, both distributed by Syracuse University Press.
To be a good boxer you have to have a type of mentality that is
rare. You could say boxers are rare people and Carmen Basilio is
the rarest of boxers. There has never been anyone quite like him. A
stand-up guy who would outwork anybody to achieve his goal. He's
number one in my book.-- "Angelo Dundee"
Youmans's descriptions of bouts, such as the legendary tussles with
Boston hero Tony DeMarco, are enough to conjure vivid memories of
the Gillette-sponsored 'Friday Night Fights, ' on which Basilio
would frequently appear. Thick with eye-catching photos, the book
nails the brutish and criminal politics of the postwar fight
game.-- "Boston Globe"
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