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Thu 01 Jan 2009Torres, master of pugilism, prose and politics
AMERICA AT LARGE:‘Now they’re shooting at our regiment,” said Pete Hamill on Monday morning when he phoned with the news that our old friend Jose Torres had died at his home in Puerto Rico a few hours earlier.
The former light-heavyweight champion, who later became chairman of the New York State Athletic Commission, was 72 when he passed away this week. I had known Torres for more than 40 years, and Hamill’s friendship went back even further.
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