George Gainford

&

Sugar Ray Robinson

From Walker Smith a.k.a Ray Robinson and the Salem-Crescent Athletic Club in Harlem to the very pinnacle of the boxing world and to the end, George Gainford was the man who started Ray Robinson, then Walker Smith in boxing and was with him every step of the way.

Oddly, Gainford was never Ray Robinson's manager, except for a brief stint in the beginning of his career when he was managed by Curt Horrmann, Ray Robinson was his own manager. Robinson tells of when he amicably parted with Horrmann and George Gainford assumed he would become his manager as well as his trainer. When Robinson informed him he would be representing himself, Ganford responded,

"What's wrong with me, Robinson? Don't you trust me?"

"George" Robinson replied calmly "I don't want to have to trust you."(1)

Vintage Original Letter Signed by George Gainford

Price: $ 140.00

Size: 8 1/2 x 11 inches

Condition: Excellent (Edge tears and some paper loss to right margin edge would mat out)

7000-0945

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(1) Sugar Ray by Sugar Ray Robinson with Dave Anderson pp.100-101