Young Archie Moore & Joe Louis had brushes with the Law

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  1. Longhhorn71

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    "How Archie Moore Fought Forever And Became Boxing's Folk Hero"

    Tremendous amount of boxing trivia re: Archie Moore
    at this link.
    Download and read at your convenience.
    https://thestacks.deadspin.com/how-archie-moore-fought-forever-and-became-boxings-folk-1679521162

    EXAMPLE:
    "Despite the best Aunt Willie could do to bring them up properly, however, both Archie and Louis had brushes with the law in their teens (as Moore recalled in his autobiography, "Louis was light-fingered by nature, and somehow a man's watch got tangled up in his hand, and the man sent the police to ask Louis what time it was."), and Archie spent a 22 month term in the Missouri reformatory at Booneville for hooking coins from a streetcar motorman. Of the reformatory experience, he says, "I don't say I enjoyed it, but I'm grateful for what it did for me. It was a glorious thing in my life, because it forced me to get eight to 10 hours of sleep every night; it gave me an opportunity to have three hot meals a day; it gave me a lesson in discipline I would never have got at home. They used to pay me a little something for the work I did, but it should have been the other way around. I should have paid them for what they did for me."

    https://thestacks.deadspin.com/how-archie-moore-fought-forever-and-became-boxings-folk-1679521162
     
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