Sugar Ray

"The Sugar Ray Robinson story, like most true-life fables, is often incredible. But it is, withal, a very human story—a story of poverty and riches, success and failure, pride and humility, good and bad."—New York Times Book Review



Sugar Ray Robinson (1921-1989) was hailed as the finest boxer to ever enter a ring. Muhammad Ali once called him "the king, my master, my idol"—and indeed, he was the idol of everyone who had anything to do with boxing. But for African Americans, he was more than ...