[Free download] West Texas Middleweight: The Story of LaVern Roach (Sport in the American West)
| #1698629 in Books | Ingramcontent | 2016-06-30 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.10 x1.10 x6.20l,.0 | File Name: 0896729753 | 288 pages | West Texas Middleweight The Story of Lavern Roach
||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| A great book about a wonderful human being brought to life ...|By T. A. Doyle|A great book about a wonderful human being brought to life by Mr. Sikes. It is a book that takes you with Lavern inside the ring and tells the bigger story of Lavern outside the ring. I believe that anyone that reads the book will take from it that it would have been an honor to have known him.|0 o|About the Author|Frank Sikes, a third-generation West Texan, grew up in Plainview, Texus, USA, where LaVern Roach, along with Jimmy Dean, were hometown heroes. West Texas Middleweight is his first book.
LaVern Roach, a skinny kid from the small town of Plainview, Texas, rose from obscurity to become one of boxing's most popular figures during the 1940s. Roach's rise to prominence occurred during an era when boxing shared the spotlight with baseball as the nation's top two professional sports. As a result of Roach's death--which marked the first nationally televised fight during which a boxer died from injuries received in the ring--the sport of boxing came under closer...
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