Cinderella Man, Jeremy Schaap
Cinderella Man, Jeremy Schaap
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Cinderella Man
James J. Braddock, Max Baer and the Greatest Upset in Boxing History

Author: Jeremy Schaap

Narrator: Grover Gardner

Unabridged: 8 hr 52 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/25/2005

Synopsis

James J. Braddock, dubbed “Cinderella Man” by Damon Runyon, was a once promising light heavyweight for whom a string of losses in the ring and a broken right hand happened to coincide with the Great Crash. With one good hand, Braddock was forced to labor on the docks of Hoboken. Only his manager, Joe Gould, still believed in him, finding fights for Braddock to help feed his wife and children. In less than twelve months Braddock went from the relief rolls to face heavyweight champion Max Baer, the Livermore Butcher Boy, renowned for having allegedly killed two men in the ring. A ten-to-one underdog, Braddock carried the hopes and dreams of the working class on his shoulders. And when boxing was the biggest sport in the world, when the heavyweight champion was the biggest star in the world, his unlikely upset made Braddock the most popular champion boxing has ever seen.

Against the gritty backdrop of the Depression, Cinderella Man brings this dramatic all-American story to life, evoking a time when the sport of boxing resonated with a country trying desperately to get back on its feet. Rich in anecdote and color, steeped in history, and full of human interest, Cinderella Man is a classic David and Goliath tale that transcends the sport.

About The Author

An ESPN anchor and national correspondent, Jeremy Schaap is a host of ESPN's Outside the Lines as well as its acclaimed SportsCentury series. An Emmy Award–winning reporter, he has been published in Sports Illustrated, ESPN The Magazine, Time, Parade, and the New York Times. He is the author of Cinderella Man. Schaap is a native of New York City and the son of award-winning journalist Dick Schaap.Grover Gardner’s narration career spans 25 years and over 550 audiobook titles. AudioFile magazine has called him one of the “Best Voices of the Century” and features him in their annual “Golden Voices” update. Publishers Weekly named him Audiobook Narrator of the Year for 2005. His recordings have garnered 18 Earphones Awards from AudioFile and an Audie Award from the Audio Publishers’ Association.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Arminius on March 08, 2016

Cinderella man is a book about an underdog in boxing as well as an underdog in life trying to make something of himself in the toughest economic times of the 20th Century. It centers itself around James J. Braddock. Braddock was a very nice man who wanted to take care of his family. One of the few i......more

Goodreads review by Robert on March 08, 2022

This is a simple story. One fighter beats another fighter that he isn't supposed to beat. And then it becomes a more complex story. A fighter, a boxer that is washed up, done and broke to boot stumbles into the Great Depression. He works one handed on the docks of New York in a Sisyphean attempt to......more

Goodreads review by Garrett on November 20, 2023

Great book. Anybody with interest in boxing or the depression era as a whole should check it out.......more

Goodreads review by Shawn on August 06, 2018

Very rarely do I find a work of non-fiction to be this much of a page-turner. A great compliment to the movie which was equally as good.......more

Goodreads review by Jefferson on January 09, 2018

Interesting book. There is quite a bit here that was not in the movie. I enjoyed listening to it. Our culture has changed significantly since the 1930s.......more

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