On December 11, 1981, Muhammad Ali slumped on a chair in the cramped, windowless locker room of a municipal baseball field outside Nassau. A phalanx of sportswriters had pushed and shoved their way into this tiny, breeze-blocked space. In this most unlikely of settings, they had come to record the last moments of the most storied of all boxing careers. They had come to intrude upon the grief. “It’s over,” mumbled Ali. “It’s over.” The show that had entertained and wowed from Zaire to Dublin, from Hamburg to Manila, finally ended its twenty-one-year run, the last performance not so much off-Broadway, more amateur theatre in the boondocks. In Drama in the Bahamas, Dave Hannigan tells the occasionally poignant, often troubling, yet always entertaining story behind Ali’s last bout. Through interviews with many of those involved, he discovers exactly how and why, a few weeks short of his fortieth birthday, a seriously diminished Ali stepped through the ropes one more time to get beaten up by Trevor Berbick. “Two billion people will be conscious of my fight,” said Ali, trotting out the old braggadocio about an event so lacking in luster that a cow bell was pressed in to service to signal the start and end of each round. How had it come to this? Why was he still boxing? Hannigan answers those questions and many more, offering a unique and telling glimpse into the most fascinating sportsman of the twentieth century in the last, strange days of his fistic life. Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Sports Publishing imprint, is proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in sports—books about baseball, pro football, college football, pro and college basketball, hockey, or soccer, we have a book about your sport or your team. In addition to books on popular team sports, we also publish books for a wide variety of athletes and sports enthusiasts, including books on running, cycling, horseback riding, swimming, tennis, martial arts, golf, camping, hiking, aviation, boating, and so much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to publishing books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked by other publishers and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 On December 29, 1980, the Nevada State Athletic Commission held a hearing to decide whether or not Muhammad Ali would ever box again. The evidence against him was overwhelming. #2 Ali's attorneys tried to prevent the hearing by offering to surrender his license in Nevada, but the commission still voted to retire him. Ali began entertaining the crowd with magic tricks. #3 The fight in Las Vegas was stopped early by the Nevada commission, which accepted Ali’s surrender of his license, and he agreed not to apply for a license to box in the state again. But who had the power to make him stop. #4 Ali was interviewed by the BBC, and while he seemed in good spirits, his speech was often unintelligible. His fans were afraid that he might become a shambling wreck if he kept boxing.

Written by acclaimed Miami playwright Sandra Riley, a trilogy of plays based on the lives of three real individuals who lived through the rich history of the Bahamas from the Age of Piracy to the turn of the 20th century: Miss Ruby relives her love story set in the late 1800s Green Turtle Cay and Key West; Matt Lowe and his family face the dangers of life in the Bahamas during the Great Age of Piracy; Mariah Brown, African Bahamian pioneer to South Florida, builds a better life for her children and creates a community in Coconut Grove to enrich the lives of her neighbors.

As a teenager living in the Bahamas, Anne’s direction in life would change as her whole life got turned upside down. Becoming a teenage mother would be the start of a roller-coaster journey for her. Luckily, she encountered two women who would add value to her life. The three women sought comfort in their friendship while they each experienced different turmoil throughout their lives. Their relationship statuses shuffled as the table turned for them, which evidently led them to the question, why? Learn about these three strong women who decided to fight for their happiness in this book Island Drama.

Sex, work, pregnancy, parents, weird neighbours, cleaning the fridge and dancing.