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Bamboozled : An Incarcerated Boxer Goes Undercover for John McCain's Boxing Bill 2nd Edition
Author(s): Joey Torrey (Author), Joe Biel
- Publisher: Microcosm Publishing
- Publication Date: 13 Jun. 2013
- Edition: 2nd
- Language: English
- Print length: 128 pages
- ISBN-10: 1621065855
- ISBN-13: 9781621065852
Book Description
An exploration of L.A. boxer Joey Torrey’s chaotic and conflicting life, from his rise from Compton gang leader to Olympic hopeful to his drug and corruption riddled fall into a maximum security cell. In the late 70s, Joey Torrey was a young boxer skyrocketing towards the Olympics until he was convicted of murdering his manager. He has spent most of the last 30 years in prison, aside from a period where he collaborated with the FBI to clean up boxing. Torrey bares all in this personal memoir where he explains how he has been manipulated by managers and bamboozled by the FBI.
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About the Author
Joey Torrey was convicted for the murder of his boxing manager and is currently in the Mule Creek State Prison in Ione, California.Joe Biel is the author of Beyond the Music and Make a Zine. He lives in Portland, Oregon.
Joe Biel is a writer, designer, filmmaker, teacher, activist, and founder of Microcosm Publishing, Cantankerous Titles, and co-founder of the Portland Zine Symposium. He tours with his films on the Dinner and Bikes program and has been featured inTime Magazine, Publishers Weekly, Utne Reader, Portland Mercury, Oregonian, Broken Pencil, Readymade, Punk Planet, Profane Existence, andMaximum Rocknroll.
