A Fine Sports Biography
This is a beautifully written book about Scotland's greatest boxer. Strangely, it is as much about a place, Glasgow's Gorbals neighborhood, as about a person, the great Benny Lynch. It is a tragic story, of course, but the prose is so well written that it never gets maudlin or overly sentimental.
Lynch is virtually unknown today in the U.S., but was the best at his weight in the heyday of boxing. There is also a lot of info about slum life in depression era Glasgow and life in the touring boxing booths of long ago.
