Books in the SPS series

Documents the ruin waiting for almost all those ill-advised enough to become professional boxers. The author confirms the legends, of crime, of swindling, of the miserable economic rewards allotted to the vast majority of fighters, and the traditional racism of the American ring.

Uses biographies to describe women's transformation from serious rodeo athletes to beauty queens and their successful struggle to regain their place, and respect, as the competitive athletes that they are.