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Submitted by jessmamy23 on May 7, 2006
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The story of how young Cassius Marcellus Clay wound up in boxing has been told time and time again. It reads as if it a movie script. However, this story is better than fiction. Clay was born on January 17, 1942 in Louisville, Ky. Growing up, Clay understood his place in the framework of the country – he was a black child of the middle class. But Toni Morrison, who worked on Ali’s autobiography as a young editor, noted that was not the best situation in which to be raised. Because not only was he middle class, “but black middle class, black southern middle class, which is not white middle class at all.” (1)
On an October afternoon in 1954, a 12-year-old Clay attended an annual convention of the Louisville Service Club at the Columbia Auditorium with a friend. He arrived at the black merchant bazaar upon a new $60 red and white Schwinn. However, after Clay and his friend indulged themselves with free popcorn and ice cream they left the auditorium to find that their bicycles had been stolen. A tearful Clay was directed to the basement of the auditorium where a policeman was manning the boxing gym. Joe Martin listened to young Cassius boast about a statewide hunt for his precious bike and heard the threats he was making to the thief if he was ever caught. After a while, Martin asked of Clay, “Well, do you know how to fight?” Clay quipped back, “No, but I’d fight anyway.” Martin’s best advice to the hot-tempered preteen was to come back around the gym and learn to fight. “Why don’t you learn something about fighting,” Martin suggested, “before you go and make any hasty challenges?” (2)
Martin went on to become Clay’s first trainer and was with him through an explosive six-year amateur career. Martin’s widow Christine recalled those early days with Clay. “I was about as involved as Joe, except for the actual training,\" she said in an interview with the Louisville Courier-Journal. \"I would drive those...
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