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Sugar, Bert Randolph was born on June 7, 1937 in Washington, District of Columbia, United States. Son of Harold Randolph and Anne Edith (Rosensweig) Sugar.
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Writers have long been attracted to boxing. Hemingway, Mailer, Algren, Plimpton, Oates, and many others have stepped into the ring—at least in spirit—to give voice to an otherwise wordless sport, to celebrate that “sweet science,” and to bear witness to its romance and tragedy. In this acclaimed book, hailed by Norman Mailer as an “impressive event,” we are brought for the first time into the ring for a close-up look at the “manly art” through the eyes of José Torres, a man who was a great boxer himself. When former light-heavyweight world champion Torres traded in his gloves for a typewriter, boxing finally found its eyewitness. In the classic Sting Like a Bee, Torres turns his well-trained eye on one of the most celebrated and controversial athletes of all time: Muhammad Ali. In this penetrating view of Ali and the world of prizefighting, told by a true insider and “boxing’s Renaissance man,” Torres delivers exciting and explicit accounts of all of Ali’s major fights with the cool authenticity of one who has lived it.
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Sugar, Bert Randolph was born on June 7, 1937 in Washington, District of Columbia, United States. Son of Harold Randolph and Anne Edith (Rosensweig) Sugar.
Born in Washington, District of Columbia, Sugar graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School in 1953, where he was a reporter and columnist for the school"s newspaper. His entry in the high school yearbook for that year predicts he "will become a radio announcer or sports writer" Sugar graduated from the University of Maryland. He earned a Juris Doctor and Master of Business Administration from the University of Michigan in 1961.
After passing the bar exam, he worked in the advertising business in New York City for ten years.
During his time in the advertising business, he worked at several different agencies, including J Walter Thompson, PKL and McCann Erickson.
Education Sugar bought Boxing Illustrated magazine in 1969 and was editor until 1973. From 1979–1983 he was editor and publisher of The Ring. In 1988 he once again began editing Boxing Illustrated.
In 1998 he founded Bert Sugar"s Fight Game.
Sugar authored over 80 books, mostly on boxing history. Various boxing books that Sugar has written include Great Fights, Bert Sugar on Boxing, 100 Years of Boxing, Sting like a Bee (with José Torres), The Ageless Warrior (Preface, with Mike Fitzgerald) and Boxing"s Greatest Fighters.
Sugar was called "The Greatest Boxing Writer of the 20th Century" by the International Veterans Boxing Association. In May 2009 he and Running Press published Bert Sugar"s Baseball Hall of Fame: A Living History of America"s Greatest Game.
Sugar also co-wrote a book about Harry Houdini titled Houdini, His Life and Art with James Randi.
Other media Sugar appeared in several films playing himself, including Night and the City, The Great White Hype and Rocky Balboa. Interviews with Sugar feature in Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson. Along with Lou Albano, he helped write The Complete Idiot"s Guide to Pro Wrestling.
He wrote a regular sports column for Smoke Magazine, a quarterly cigar lifestyle magazine.
Sugar was described by Bob Costas as being "Runyonesque" (in reference to Damon Runyon). And as "one of the foremost historians alive," by the Boston Globe.
Sugar died from cardiac arrest on March 25, 2012. His family was at his bedside at Northern Westchester Hospital in Mount Kisco, New New York
Prior to his death, Sugar had been battling lung cancer.
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Member Boxing Writers Association, American Society Magazine Editors, American Political Items Collectors Association, Football Writers Association, Basketball Writers Association, Alpha Delta Sigma, Beta Alpha Psi.
Married Suzanne Davis, November 23, 1960. Children: Jennifer Anne, John-Brooks Randolph.