The Man They Couldn't Gag |
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... fact that they were too good . Louis was going to meet Jim Braddock , a sometime longshoreman in New Jersey , who had been christened the ' Cinderella Man ' by Damon Runyon in his sportswriting days , because Braddock had come back from ...
... fact that they were too good . Louis was going to meet Jim Braddock , a sometime longshoreman in New Jersey , who had been christened the ' Cinderella Man ' by Damon Runyon in his sportswriting days , because Braddock had come back from ...
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... fact that Bikila had done much of his training at the fantastic altitude of his country's highlands . From the halfway mark the race was between Bikila and the Moroccan cross - crountry star , Rhadi - neither of whom would , I'm certain ...
... fact that Bikila had done much of his training at the fantastic altitude of his country's highlands . From the halfway mark the race was between Bikila and the Moroccan cross - crountry star , Rhadi - neither of whom would , I'm certain ...
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... fact , in one of the greater upsets of recent years he stopped Frazier in two rounds just fifty - three weeks after the Daniels fight . ) I wrote : ' Personally , if I were to be going to see only one more world heavyweight championship ...
... fact , in one of the greater upsets of recent years he stopped Frazier in two rounds just fifty - three weeks after the Daniels fight . ) I wrote : ' Personally , if I were to be going to see only one more world heavyweight championship ...
Contents
Sometimes it was the Street of Misadventure until 1935 | 19 |
Mirror Mirror on the Ball 19357 | 31 |
The End of the Beginning 193840 | 52 |
Copyright | |
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