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Being Sugar Ray: Sugar Ray Robinson, America's Greatest Boxer and First Celebrity Athlete - Softcover
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"We're so used to the celebrity that accompanies the great and the good that it's hard to imagine a time when athletes and sportsmen were simply that. In this readable and adept biography, Kenneth Shropshire argues that the boxer Sugar Ray Robinson transcended race and sport to become one of the first celebrity athletes, managing to change the way that a black man was seen in America. A fascinating look at the life of a boxer whose career spanned three decades and who has inspired countless imitators over the years." --Sunday Express
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Muhammad Ali memorably referred to Sugar Ray Robinson as the king, the master, my idol," and rarely a fight fan has chosen to argue too much with those words. With a career spanning three decades, multiple championships, over two hundred fights (without once taking a 10-count), and more victories than Joe Louis and Ali combined it was no surprise when RING magazine named Robinson pound for pound, the best boxer of all time." In Being Sugar Ray , acclaimed scholar Kenneth Shropshire contends that Sugar Ray Robinson's influence extends far beyond the ring. It was Robinson who introduced America to the athlete as entrepreneur and celebrity. From his business empire to his prized flamingo pink Cadillac, described as the Hope Diamond of Harlem, Sugar Ray was the trailblazer whom every athlete since has been trying, consciously or otherwise, to emulate.
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- VerlagCivitas Books
- Erscheinungsdatum2008
- ISBN 10 0465078044
- ISBN 13 9780465078042
- EinbandTapa blanda
- Anzahl der Seiten275
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