Book review: The Onion Picker

• Gary B Youmans, The Onion Picker: Carmen Basilio and Boxing in the 1950s(New York, 2007)

A thorough and loving homage to Carmen Basilio and to a legendary era of boxing history.

Builds to a climax with his two bouts against Sugar Ray Robinson – where I found it hard to do anything but root for the great Sugar man.