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F.X. Toole

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born

July 30, 1930 in Long Beach, CA, The United States

died

September 02, 2002

gender

male

website

http://www.fxtoole.com/

genre

Sports, Boxing

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F.X. Toole is the pen name of boxing trainer Jerry Boyd (1930 — September 2, 2002).

Jerry Boyd was the son of Irish immigrants. He worked odd jobs, including shoeshine boy, bartender, cement truck driver and vat cleaner. Inspired by Ernest Hemingway's book "Death in the Afternoon," he moved to Mexico City and studied bullfighting. After his brief matador career, Boyd returned to Los Angeles and began frequenting boxing gyms to get in shape. Eventually, he became a boxing trainer and ringside "cut man," whose sole job is to stop a fighter's bleeding.

Over the decades, with no formal writing training, he also began writing. After 40 years of rejection slips, he published a short story called "The Monkey Look" in Zyzzyva, a San Francisco literar...more

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Books by F.X. Toole

Average rating: 3.79 · 608 ratings · 92 reviews · 5 distinct works

	Million Dollar Baby: Stories from the Corner 3.83 avg rating — 449 ratings — published 2000 — 12 editions	My rating:
	Pound for Pound: A Novel by F.X. Toole, James Ellroy (Foreword by) 3.76 avg rating — 100 ratings — published 2006 — 8 editions	My rating:
	A bordo ring by F.X. Toole, S. Brogli (Translator), Fabio Paracchini (Translator) 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2007 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Best American Mystery Stories 2002 by James Ellroy (Editor / Contributor), Otto Penzler (Goodreads Author) (Editor / Contributor), John Biguenet (Contributor) 3.50 avg rating — 48 ratings — published 2002 — 5 editions	My rating:
	The dark side by Roberto Santachiara (Editor), Jeffery Deaver (Goodreads Author), James Ellroy 3.44 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2006	My rating:

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Quotes by F.X. Toole

“It’s not something he can do anything about, being a bleeder, anymore than a guy with a glass jaw can do something about not having whiskers.”
― F.X. Toole

tags: inspiration

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“The old white man didn't look into your eyes, he looked clear through your eyes, and straight to the inside of the back of your head. 'Instead of runnin from pain, which is the natural thing in life, in boxing you step to it, get me?”
― F.X. Toole

tags: boxing , life

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