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Contents |
Prologue : Round midnight -- 1921-1942 : Say goodbye to Walker Smith Jr. -- 1943-1944 : Sugar Ray's uniform -- 1945-1946 : Esquire men -- A lovely setup for the old man -- 1947 : Killer -- 1942-1951 : An opera in six brutal acts -- 1951 : Around (a part of) the world in fifty days -- 1952 : Dreams -- 1953-1954 : The very thought of you onstage -- 1954-1956 : Greatness again -- 1960-1962 : Battling -- 1963-1966 : Autumn leaves -- 1967-1989 : Saving all those Walker Smith juniors. |
Abstract |
From the author of the critically acclaimed "In Black and White" comes another illuminating narrative in which Haygood explores one of the 20th-century's most iconic figures of the fight game, Sugar Ray Robinson. |
Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 421-425) and index. |
LCCN | 2009005534 |
ISBN | 9781400044979 |
ISBN | 1400044979 |