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Title
Sugar Ray Robinson
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator
Fowler, Perry
Date Created and/or Issued
1956
Contributing Institution
Los Angeles Public Library
Collection
Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information
Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description
Used in the Exhibit: Play by Play - A Century of L.A. Sports Photography, 1889-1989
Walker Smith, better known as Sugar Ray Robinson, winding up the left hook that will knock out Carl "Bobo" Olsen in the fourth round of their middleweight championship fight at Wrigley Field. Acclaimed as the best pound-for-pound fighter, Robinson won the middleweight title on five different occasions. After his retirement, he settled in Los Angeles to run the Ray Robinson Youth Foundation. He died in 1989. Photo dated: May 18, 1956.
Type
Image
Format
1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier
00049073
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 9423.; HE-002-532 4x5
CARL0000052858
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/17289
Subject
Robinson, Sugar Ray,--1920-1989
Olsen, Carl
Wrigley Field (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Boxers (Sports)--California--Los Angeles
Boxing--California--Los Angeles
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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