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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. West Texas Middleweight is the story of Roach’s all too brief journey from a West Texas amateur, to enlistment in the US Marines, to becoming a Madison Square Garden main eventer.

West Texas Middleweight The Story of LaVern

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      Publisher: Texas Tech Press,U.S.
      Publication Date: 30/06/2016
      ISBN13: 9780896729759, 978-0896729759
      ISBN10: 0896729753

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      Book Synopsis
      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. West Texas Middleweight is the story of Roach’s all too brief journey from a West Texas amateur, to enlistment in the US Marines, to becoming a Madison Square Garden main eventer.

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