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Atlas : from the streets to the ring : a son's struggle to become a man / Teddy Atlas and Peter Alson.
Van Pelt Library GV1132.A78 A3 2006
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Atlas, Teddy.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Atlas, Teddy.
- Boxing trainers--United States--Biography.
- Boxing trainers.
- Boxing--United States--History.
- Boxing.
- United States.
- History.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- 278 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Ecco, [2006]
- Summary:
- The autobiography of legendary boxing trainer and television commentator Atlas chronicles his journey as the delinquent son of a doctor to a man who embraces and lives by his father's values and codes.
- Contents:
- Not All Bruises Are Black and Blue 1
- Green Acres, Here I Come 16
- There and Back Again 29
- Smokers 44
- A Death in the Family 55
- The Promised Land 65
- The Truth and a Lie 74
- Complete and Incomplete 83
- Words and Actions 98
- The Last Dance 111
- The Murder in My Heart 127
- I Won't Tell Anybody You Took a Dive 141
- Fire, Not Fear 152
- What It Means to be a Pro 170
- Again, Teddy? 181
- One Smart Bastard 190
- There Comes a Time 210
- Big George 222
- And Once Again 235
- Complicated But Simple 252
- The Foundation 260
- Stickin' and Movin' 270.
- ISBN:
- 0060542403
- OCLC:
- 61278672
- Publisher Number:
- 9780060542405
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