Crossing the Color Line –

 Stanley Ketchel's Challenge for 

Jack Johnson's Heavyweight Crown

Crossing the Color Line is the result of impressive and exhaustive research, whereby we follow Stanley Ketchell, Jack Johnson, and Ketchell’s manager Willis Britt’s movements almost day by day, leading to the big fight on October 16, 1909 in San Francisco and its immediate aftermath. Ketchell would be murdered less than a year later and Johnson would go on to beat heavyweight James J. Jeffries in Reno, Nevada on July 4, 1910. 

The background details on the managerial negotiations, with accurate figures of the money spent and lost, is meticulously unearthed. Crossing the Color Line honestly and fairly documents a part of boxing history that is usually neglected in favor of the more sensational slant taken by several Ketchell biographers. A great addition to boxing history, richly illustrated with vintage photographs and cartoons.

Above is the trailer for the upcoming release Crossing the Color Line: Stanley Ketchel's Challenge for Jack Johnson's Heavyweight Crown (Valigor Press, 302 pages, 8x10, paperback, photos).

This book will be issued in paperback and as an eBook on both Amazon and Barnes & Noble.

Barnes & Noble link

Amazon link

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