Purchased from The Goodwill thrift store especially to be shared through BookCrossing!

This will be one of the books given away for my ELEVENTH Bookiversary Give-Away to be held on my anniversary date: November 14, 2014! Link to Forum Thread, Click Here!

About the Author: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

F.X. Toole is the pen name of boxing trainer Jerry Boyd (1930 – 2002). Toole is most noted for writing the collection of short stories Rope Burns: Stories from the Corner, which were adapted into the Oscar-winning movie Million Dollar Baby in 2004. F.X. Toole's posthumous novel Pound for Pound was released in 2006 to rave reviews.

Rope Burns: Stories from the Corner (In this edition, renamed Million Dollar Baby as a movie tie-in,) is dedicated to Dub Huntley, the man who introduced Boyd to boxing, and many of the characters and events related in the book are from Dub Huntley's life and experience. Huntley trained Boyd to box when Boyd was in his 40's and the two became friends during that time. Immediately before his death, Boyd was acting as a cutman and assistant trainer to Huntley with female professional boxer Juli Crockett, who Huntley told Sports Illustrated in an interview, was the basis for the characterization of the character Maggie Fitzgerald in Million Dollar Baby.
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Read Published reviews and Readers' Reviews of this book of Short Stories at Amazon at this link: www.amazon.com/Million-Dollar-Baby

An E-Less title for pinkoeria's challenge! (CLICK HERE FOR LINK TO CHALLENGE)

November 28, 2014: ☺ Happy Traveling, Book! ☺No one claimed this book as part of my ELEVENTH Bookiversary Give-Away, so it's being sent to glory-to-glory for the red phone booth OBCZ !

Thank you for remembering us!

Left in the red phone booth Book Exchange outside Laredo Mexican Grill in Union Square, El Dorado, AR!

Enjoy!