Million Dollar Baby: Stories from the Corner
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ISBN: 006081926X / Publisher: EccoPress, December 2004
Explores the challenges, glory, and humanity of the sport, with five short stories and one novella that reveal the complex relationship between athletes, trainers, and promoters.
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This hard-hitting collection of powerful and moving tales based on the experiences of the late, great fight manager and cut man Jerry Boyd, who wrote under the pen name F.X. Toole, is the basis for the Oscar-winning motion picture starring Hilary Swank and Morgan Freeman. Breathing life into vivid, compelling characters who radiate the fierce intensity of the worlds they inhabit, Million Dollar Baby "is not just fight fiction at its finest, it is excellent fiction, period" (Dan Rather).
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