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People From Nodaway County, Missouri: Albert David, Harley Race, Jerry Wallace, Dale Carnegie, Bud Millikan, Truman H. Landon, Horace A. Jones |  | Creator: Books LLC
Publisher: Books LLC
Category: Book
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Pages: 70
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Dimensions (in): 9 x 6 x 0.2
ISBN: 1157262619
EAN: 9781157262619
ASIN: 1157262619
Publication Date: May 29, 2010
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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Albert David, Harley Race, Jerry Wallace, Dale Carnegie, Bud Millikan, Truman H. Landon, Horace A. Jones, Ben A. Jones, Henry L. Jost, Darius Kinsey, Homer Croy, William M. Grace, Bill Tobin, John S. Bilby, Brad Lager, Edward H. Moore, Bob Hendren, Lynne Overman. Excerpt: Harley Leland Race (born April 11, 1943) is a retired American professional wrestler and current promoter. During his career as a wrestler, he amassed seven National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) World Heavyweight Championship reigns at a time when wrestlers rarely repeated as champion, and worked for all of the major wrestling promotions, including the NWA, the American Wrestling Association (AWA), the World Wrestling Federation (WWF), and World Championship Wrestling (WCW). He was the first NWA United States Heavyweight Champion. Race is regarded by wrestling purists as one of the greatest champions of all time. Race was an early fan of professional wrestling, watching programming from the nearby Chicago territory on the DuMont Network. After overcoming polio as a child, he began training as a professional wrestler as a teen under former world champions Stanislaus and Wladek Zbyszko, who operated a farm in his native Missouri. While in high school, an altercation with another classmate led to the principal kneeing Race in the back of the head as he tried to break up the fight. Enraged, Race attacked him, resulting in his expulsion. Already 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) and 225 lb (102 kg), Race decided to get his start in professional wrestling. Race was recruited by St. Joseph wrestling promoter Gust Karras, who hired Race to do odd jobs for his promotion, including chauffeuring the 800 lb (360 kg) wrestler Happy Humphrey. Eventually, Race started wrestling on some of his shows, and so... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=1518377
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