D. Man: My Life and Boxing: Based on a Memoir by Richard Paul Westcott

Dickie Westcott grew up on the mean streets of Baltimore during the 1950s. Postwar cities saw an explosion in juvenile crime rates as literally millions of unsupervised teenagers, from single parent or broken homes, roamed the streets. A good number of these young people joined gangs, like the Drapes in Baltimore. Dickie was a sixteen-year-old member of the Drapes and a promising young boxer when, on New Year's morning of 1956, he killed a fellow teen in a drunken fight. For his crime, he s...