Being Sugar Ray: The Life of Sugar Ray Robinson, America's Greatest Boxer and the First Celebrity Athlete

by Kenneth L. Shropshire

Book Overview

And in this corner, hailing from Black Bottom, Detroit by way of Harlem, with more victories than Joe Louis and Muhammad Ali combined, the greatest fighter-pound for pound-of all time: Sugar Ray Robinson. If imitation is truly the sincerest form of flattery then there should be little doubt Sugar Ray Robinson is the greatest and most influential American boxer of all time. Fighters (and the occasional alt-rock band) have been adopting his name,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0465078044
• ISBN13: 9780465078042
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Civitas Book Publisher
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.0" x 8.1"