"The
Fight Doctor"
Ybor City Chronicles
by Ferdie
Pacheco M.D.
"Ferdie Pacheco takes us to a vanished time and place,
full of affectionate laughter, the invincible optimism of immigrants, and the delicious aroma of good cigars. He makes all of us wish we'd grown up in
Ybor City." -Pete Hamill
"As anyone knows who tunes him in on national TV as
'The Fight Doctor,' Ferdie Pacheco is a world-class spellbinder. But
catching that verbal magic on a page is a rare gift. The proof is in the
reading of this racy, vivid, evocative page tuner, as much fun to read as Ferdie
had living it in this unique Cuban enclave, a world unto itself that he
re-creates for us in Pachecoese, a lingua franca of the spirit." -Budd
Schullberg
"Ferdie Pacheco's incomparable insights bring Tampa's
vintage Ybor City alive again. Dr. Pacheco has delivered a gem." -
Shirley Povich, Washinton Post
"'Fight Doctor' Ferdie Pacheco doesn't pull any
punches in writing his recollections of growing up in Ybor City. He's a
rare raconteur whose humor highlights and humanizes what really happened behind
the headlines in a unique community. Ybor City Chronicles
brings back a climactic era when larger-than-life personalities still held sway
in Tampa's Latin Quarter." -Leleand Hawes, Tampa Tribune
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