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NEW EDITION WITH 25 PHOTOGRAPHS"I see at least two movies in Murderers' Row, maybe four, each one a Tom Joad journey through the Heart of Darkness."-Charlie NewtonThere used to be a particularly dangerous and crime-ridden alley located in what is now the SoHo district of NYC; it ran between ramshackle tenements in a black neighbourhood known as Darktown in the early 19th Century. "Murderers' Row" was no place for the decent or the delicate. By the 1870s, the term was used in direct reference to the second tier of the Tombs prison , which loomed a half mile from the alley. In 1918, New York was cheering six sluggers in the Yankees batting order who were bringing fans to their feet; "murderers' row" they called them.Boxing is to baseball what film noir is to a musical. It's the bad neighbourhood of sports. It's no place for the decent or the delicate. It too has a murderers' row: eight elite and notorious fighters from the 1940s who evoke the shadowy origins of the name. One of them .

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