Bigger Prize - Bog af Denis Gray - Hardback
When trainer Frank \Black Machine\ Whaley of View Point, Texas, dies of a heart attack in 1946, Elegant Raines, an eighteen-year-old black prizefighter, must find a new trainer. Raines calls on Leemore \Pee-Pot\ Manners, a boxing trainer who lives in Longwood, West Virginia. Any honest man would say Pee-Pot knows more about boxing than anyone alive-whether that man is black or white.Raines's goal is to become the heavyweight champion of the world. Under Pee-Pot's tutelage Raines wins not only..