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Tales from the 5th Street Gym
Ferdie Pacheco
Ali, the Dundees, and Miami's Golden Age of Boxing
University Press of Florida
April 2010
On Sale: March 28, 2010
208 pages ISBN: 0813034361 EAN: 9780813034362 Hardcover
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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 boxing at Miami Beach. "Tales from
The 5th Street Gym" includes a wealth of never-before-seen
photographs and is the first to chronicle the fascinating
history of the 5th Street Gym from one of its insiders - Dr.
Ferdie Pacheco - with crucial contributions from Tom
Archdeacon, Angelo Dundee, Suzanne Dundee Bonner, Enrique
Encinosa, Howard Kleinberg, Ramiro Ortiz, Edwin Pope, Bob
Sheridan, and Budd Schulberg. Discover the secret history of
one of boxing's most hallowed grounds, as Pacheco recalls
the rise, heyday, and fall of the 'sweet science' at Miami
Beach.
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