F.X. Toole





F.X. Toole

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

died
September 02, 2002

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F.X. Toole is the pen name of boxing trainer Jerry Boyd (1930 β€” 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


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

“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?”
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