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Monday 22 April 2019

The Loser


          In the smaller room is a large bed he makes up himself, several record albums he rarely plays, a telephone that rarely rings. The larger room has a kitchen on one side and on the other, adjacent to a sofa, is a fireplace, from which are hung trunks and T-shirts to dry, and a photograph of him when he was the champion, and also a television set. The set is usually on, except when Patterson is sleeping or when he is sparring across the road in the clubhouse.

excerpt from
The Loser
Gay Talese
Esquire magazine
March 1964

image
Bernard Dunstan

   https://thestacks.deadspin.com/the-loser-the-most-honest-sports-story-ever-written-772260237

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