Being Sugar Ray: The Life of Sugar Ray Robinson, America's Greatest Boxer and the First Celebrity Athlete

Author/Contributor(s):	Shropshire, Kenneth
Publisher:	Basic Books
Date:	01/01/2008
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

Boxing champ Sugar Ray Robinson transcended race and sport to become a celebrity athlete in a way that no one--white or black--had accomplished before him. In this illuminating biography, Shropshire shows Sugar Ray was the trailblazer whom every athlete since has been trying, consciously or otherwise, to emulate.