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100 1 $aBoyd, Herb,$d1938-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80003074
245 10 $aPound for pound :$ba biography of Sugar Ray Robinson /$cHerb Boyd with Ray Robinson II.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bAmistad,$c[2005], ©2005.
300 $axvii, 316 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [291]-304) and index.
520 1 $a"Hailed by Muhammad Ali as "the king, the master, my idol," Sugar Ray Robinson was the greatest boxer America had seen since Joe Louis and is considered by many today to be, pound for pound, the best boxer the sport has ever known. A world welterweight and five-time middleweight champion, he had a career that spanned three decades. Before he finally hung up his boxing gloves in 1965, at the age of forty-four, Sugar Ray Robinson won 125 consecutive fights, including victories over Henry Armstrong, Kid Gavilan, Carmen Basilio, Jake LaMotta, Rocky Graziano, Gene Fullmer, and Randy Turpin." "At a time still characterized by discrimination, his victories, like those of Jackie Robinson, represented victories for all black America. And they were all the more symbolic because of the place he chose to call home - Harlem. Co-written with Robinson's son, Ray Robinson II, and thoroughly researched by Amsterdam News reporter Herb Boyd, Pound for Pound is not only a definitive portrait of an emotionally complex man and his family, it is also a portrait of Harlem at the apex of its creativity, a time when Miles Davis was playing at Minton's, Langston Hughes was writing his divine poetry, and a boy from Georgia originally named Walker Smith Jr. would take on the moniker "Sugar.""--BOOK JACKET.
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