The fighting Frenchman : Minnesota's boxing legend Scott LeDoux /
"Scott LeDoux's face read like a roadmap of boxing's last golden era--eye thumbed by Larry Holmes, brow gashed by Mike Tyson, ears stung by none other than Muhammad Ali. "George Foreman hit me so hard," LeDoux said, "my ancestors in France felt it." The only man to...
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University of Minnesota Press,
2016
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Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Introduction: Five Minutes to Go
- 1. The Great Milford Mining Disaster
- 2. Doc and Mickey
- 3. "I Thought I Had Done Something Bad"
- 4. When Lightning Struck
- 5. The Last Place on Earth
- 6. "I've Had Enough"
- 7. Sandy
- 8. Papa Joe
- 9. The Great White Shadow
- 10 . One for the Record Books
- 11. A Foreman Grilling
- 12. A Hair- Raising Fix
- 13. A Suspension, a Missing Mouthpiece, a Rematch
- 14. "To Be Somebody"
- 15. The Greatest?
- 16. Always King
- 17. Six Months to Live
- 18. Cold, Hard Cash
- 19. Luck of the Draw
- 20. The Monroe Doctrine
- 21. "What's an Eye When You've Given Your Heart?"
- 22. Last Rounds
- 23. Game Seven
- 24. Down for the Count
- 25. Crucial Confrontation
- 26. Something to Prove
- 27. Funeral for a Friend
- Afterword: The Greatest and More
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W
- Y
- Z.
