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Tales from the 5th Street Gym: Ali, the Dundees, and Miami's Golden Age of Boxing
Ferdie Pacheco
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Description for Tales from the 5th Street Gym: Ali, the Dundees, and Miami's Golden Age of Boxing
hardcover. In its forty-year existence, the 5th Street Gym housed the training grounds for three of the greatest fighters the sport has ever known - Muhammad Ali, George Foreman, and Sugar Ray Leonard - and became the locus for a grand total of fourteen world champions. This title chronicles the history of the 5th Street Gym. Num Pages: 272 pages, 8 colour & 87 b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1KBBFL; WSBV; WSTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 165 x 23. Weight in Grams: 550.
In its forty-year existence, the 5th Street Gym housed the training grounds for three of the greatest fighters the sport has ever known - Muhammad Ali, George Foreman, and Sugar Ray Leonard - and became the locus for a grand total of fourteen world champions. The site was also a magnet for a wide range of international celebrities including Joe Louis, Rocky Marciano, Jackie Gleason, Frank Sinatra, the Beatles, and Sylvester Stallone, who were all absorbed into the gym's legend. The 5th Street Gym's beginnings trace back to 1950, when Chris Dundee, along with his brother Angelo, began promoting big-time ... Read more
In its forty-year existence, the 5th Street Gym housed the training grounds for three of the greatest fighters the sport has ever known - Muhammad Ali, George Foreman, and Sugar Ray Leonard - and became the locus for a grand total of fourteen world champions. The site was also a magnet for a wide range of international celebrities including Joe Louis, Rocky Marciano, Jackie Gleason, Frank Sinatra, the Beatles, and Sylvester Stallone, who were all absorbed into the gym's legend. The 5th Street Gym's beginnings trace back to 1950, when Chris Dundee, along with his brother Angelo, began promoting big-time ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University Press of Florida United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Place of Publication
Florida, United States
ISBN
9780813034362
SKU
V9780813034362
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About Ferdie Pacheco
Ferdie Pacheco, the "Fight Doctor," is a physician, boxing analyst, screenwriter, author, and artist. After serving fifteen years as Muhammad Ali's physician and corner man, he began a career as a boxing analyst for NBC, Showtime, and Univision. He received an Emmy Award for his work on a series of specials on Ali's greatest fights. His most recent book is ... Read more
Reviews for Tales from the 5th Street Gym: Ali, the Dundees, and Miami's Golden Age of Boxing
"It was the gym where the Muhammad Ali legend was born. The 5th Street Gym in Miami and those that inhabited it are gone now, but inside these pages their spirit lives." - Thomas K. Stewart, Boxing Writers of America"