model, when prize fights were telecast on network television and still captured the nation's attention. Championship bouts during this era were replete with revenge and fury, often pitting one of these storied fighters against another. From training camps to locker rooms, author George Kimball was there to cover every body shot, uppercut, and TKO. Inside stories full of drama, sacrifice, fear, and pain make up this treasury of boxing tales brought to life by one of the sport's greatest writers. About the Author George Kimball spent 25 years as a sports columnist for the Boston Herald and in 1986 received the Nat Fleischer Award for Excellence in Boxing Journalism. He has covered more than 350 title bouts, and is the author of Only Skin Deep and Sunday's Fools. He lives in New York City. RE: NAT FLEISCHER AWARD: http://boxing.about.com/library/bl_bwaa_fleischer.htm RE: PLOUGHSHARES http://www.pshares.org/authors/author-detail.cfm?authorID=1899 RE: GRIST: https://web.archive.org/web/20081117052816/http://www.etext.org/Poetry/Grist/gol_1.asc Any reference to the original GRIST would be incomplete if there were no indication of the contribution made by co-editors George Kimball and Charlie Plymell. For many issues they were, in fact, the editors, while I acted as publisher (from the thin bankroll of the Abington Book Shop which was too soon exhausted). They sought out authors, gathered material, traveled, wrote letters, made phone calls, cajoled subscribers, designed, laid out, typed, printed, collated, stapled, stamped and delivered. (John Fowler) References Secondsout.com article by Thomas Hauser Thesweetscience.com bio Kimball family genealogy Death notice External links Official site Contributions and mentions in ESPN Facebook Sweet Science Article George Kimball at Beats In Kansas University of Kansas alumni 1943 births 2011 deaths People from Grass Valley, California Journalists from California