Friday, June 24, 2016

Ribbs reminisces about Ali...



Ran across the following article in the Indianapolis Star's Sports section recently when doing my Daily News Trawl via my NFB Newsline for The Blind telephone service, which allows me daily access to many of the world's remaining Newspapers.

It's a good story, as I had NO idea that Willy T. Ribbs had trained with "The Greatest," aka Muhammad Ali. As Ribbs recounts his spending all night in the Hotel Ali was staying at - as a 21yr old Yank living abroad, just in order to go  running with him in the morning...