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This note was written in the summer of 1963, months before the World Heavyweight Championship fight between Clay and Sonny Liston in February 1964. The Sports Illustrated reporter Frank Deford was on the train with Clay, headed back to New York, when he asked for an autograph for his younger brother Gill. Clay wrote the note on a piece of paper from Deford’s reporter’s notepad. Though the fight wi

  • Por Unidentified, Muhammad Ali, American, 1942 - 2016, Sonny Liston, American, 1928 - 1970, Gill Deford, American
  • Crédito: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Given to Frank Deford, a writer for Sports Illustrated, in August 1963
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