Word: scalley
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Tony out back, where a lopsided Everlast bag still swings from a tree, Gerry lost his first bout?to a girl. In a childhood cluttered with embarrassments, this was not an unusual event. "As a kid, I had so many complexes," says Cooney, tugging an ever present brown scalley cap over his eyes, giggling. "Skinny, knock-kneed?6 ft. 1 in., 130 Ibs.?pimples, big nose, big ears . . . What are you getting such a laugh out of?" He is still...
...absolute worst thing in life is to be alone." On one car trip to the hospital for a cobalt treatment, Tony had turned to him and said: "I'd rather crawl to the hospital than ride with you if you won't live in our house." Now the scalley cap is pulled down because Gerry is crying. Tony died shortly after his son won a second Golden Gloves, as a heavyweight. Cooney might have tried for the 1976 Olympics, but says sullenly, "I lost my taste for fighting...