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	Kid McCoy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Born in Moscow, Rush County, Indiana, McCoy was noted for his "corkscrew punch"-a blow delivered with a twisting of the wrist.
		At this time however, McCoy was involved in a romance with a wealthy married woman, Teresa Mors.
		McCoy was apprehended and charged with the murder of Mrs.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kid_McCoy (858 words)

	IBHOF / Kid McCoy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Charles "Kid" McCoy was a clever and popular fighter at the turn of the century.
		As the proceedings dragged on, Theresa Mors was shot and killed in the apartment she shared with McCoy on August 12, 1924.
		McCoy was charged with the murder and was found guilty of manslaughter and sentenced to 10 years in prison.
	www.ibhof.com /mccoy.htm (292 words)

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		McCoy always looking for a psychological as well as physical advantage would feign sickness or state that he had not trained for a particular fight.
		McCoy only got the fight Tommy Ryan because he told Ryan he was dying of consumption and wanted one last payday.
		McCoy was near the end of his career however and had taken a lot of punishment at the heavyweight level.
	bxhof.tripod.com /mccoy.html (952 words)

	Kid McCoy - Slider
		Charles "Kid" McCoy, who was born Norman Selby (October 13, 1872 – April 18, 1940) was a world champion boxer.
		McCoy was noted for his "corkscrew punch"-a blow delivered with a twisting of the wrist.
		McCoy was sent to San Quentin, but was paroled from prison in 1932.
	enc.slider.com /Enc/Kid_McCoy (829 words)

	Charles 'Kid' McCoy Biography (Boxer) — Infoplease.com
		"Kid" McCoy got his nickname when he began prizefighting as a teenager under the pseudonym of Charles McCoy.
		McCoy's "corkscrew" punch was famous for the cutting damage it inflicted on opponent's faces, and he was known for his trickery and unpredictability in the ring.
		He is often credited with being the inspiration for the popular phrase "The Real McCoy," though the true origins of that phrase are unclear.
	www.infoplease.com /biography/var/kidmccoy.html (145 words)

	Boxed In
		And even though Kid McCoy -- polygamist, pugilist, flim-flam artist and potential politician -- may lack the freakishness and the pathos of medical oddity, Strauss' invention of his character marks out a greater significance than the scant facts of his biography would seem to indicate possible.
		McCoy, we're told, is more than just a boxer; we see him briefly as a con man, as a lover (with three concurrent wives, although his polygamy is more a matter of not divorcing than simultaneously marrying), and as a public figure with political ambitions.
		McCoy's flim-flam capers serve as an apprenticeship in public relations, and are quickly glossed-over; the only one that gets more than passing attention, a set-piece at the end of the novel, is so unclear and incoherent (especially given the clarity we expect Mamet-esque confidence games to be delivered with) that Strauss' previous glibness seems preferable.
	www.citypaper.net /articles/2002-06-06/books.shtml (715 words)

	Charles McCoy (130514) - OOTP Developments Forums
		McCoy is almost mythical due to the stories written about him, which was the style of journalism of the times.
		McCoy's story does not have a happy ending however, as he killed himself after being implicated in the death of a woman.
		McCoy was destitute and resorted to petty robbery before his demise.
	www.ootpdevelopments.com /board/showthread.php?t=81702 (1076 words)

	Kid McCoy Boxer Corkscrew (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		By the age of 17 he had become a pro fighter and took on the name Charles "Kid" McCoy.
		McCoy not only used his famous "corkscrew" in his fights but he resorted to all kinds of screwy trickery including spreading rumors that he wasn't training or that he was injured or that he was very sick.
		McCoy's "corkscrew" punch lived on when Muhammed Ali used a similar technique many years later and claimed he invented it.
	www.bullworks.net /virtual/newstuff/boxer.htm (230 words)

	The Real McCoy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A boxer, Norman Selby, known as Kid McCoy, American welterweight champion from 1898-1900.
		The McCoy family of an infamous family feud between the Hatfields and the McCoys on the West Virginia-Kentucky border in the United States in the late nineteenth century.
		McCoy pottery was made by the McCoy family in Ohio, United States, through most of the 20th century.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Real_McCoy (464 words)

	Re: The Real McCoy:a bit more
		My understanding of the origin of "the Real McCoy", without documentation, is that it was an ex-slave named McCoy that had developed an oil for lubricating steam engines before the intoduction of automatic lubericators.
		The broad consensus seems to be that it was Kid McCoy, the former welterweight boxing champion of the 1890s.
		At that time there was a well known boxer called Kid McCoy; a drunk picked a fight with him without realising who he actually was.
	www.phrases.org.uk /bulletin_board/8/messages/437.html (503 words)

	ReadingGroupGuides.com - The Real McCoy by Darin Strauss
		McCoy had a wooer's slicked-up brown hair and the sweet temper of a lucky man. But even using that celebrated name the kid was slight, a cousin to the ribbed washboards women had in those days: not an ideal case for a guy intent on the welterweight crown.
		I recognized it as McCoy's self-possession getting the better of his giant enthusiasm, and I fell in love with the man for the thousandth, the ten thousandth time.
		Ryan, it's not really a fight, and it doesn't have to be free." McCoy bowed his head at her, as if at any time she might start treating him with respect.
	www.readinggroupguides.com /guides3/real_mccoy3.asp (1983 words)

	Interview \| Darin Strauss
		If he were around today, Kid McCoy would be a celebrity like Madonna -- someone who is famous for her ability to be famous -- or he'd be some executive at Enron.
		You end the book with McCoy reflecting on how he's achieved immortality in a catch-phrase: "In the end there was nothing extraordinary about me but the intensity of my desire." That's a pretty sad statement with which to end the book.
		The real Real McCoy had a pretty dramatic end to his life -- he was accused of murdering his mistress, convicted and sent to prison, and then after his release he killed himself with an overdose of sleeping pills.
	www.januarymagazine.com /profiles/strauss.html (3336 words)

	Racism in the schoolbook 'Motion, Forces, and Energy,' sold by Prentice Hall
		McCoy considered this a waste of time and put his engineering skills to work to design a continuous drip lubrication process.
		Until McCoy invented a "lubricator cup" in the 1870s, Empak says, "all motorized machinery" had to be stopped for lubrication.
		Empak says that McCoy was born in 1843 (not 1884), and Empak does not call him "the father of lubrication." Maybe the Prentice Hall crew devised that silliness all by themselves.
	www.textbookleague.org /35fake.htm (1109 words)

	The Disco Kid - Van McCoy - Song Listings
		Too much, too soon -- those are the only words to describe Van McCoy's second 1975 effort (or third, if you count the 1972 LP that shot into the charts on the heels of his massive, monstrous, genre-defining "The Hustle" single).
		To his credit, McCoy does manage to keep the swings and balances poised with a handful of soulful ballads that focus more on his vocals than on the strings and sighs of America's hottest dance mania.
		Both "Words Spoken Softly at Midnight" and a cover of "I'm Gonna Love You" are tenderly wrought, proof that even though McCoy may have been cashing in (and who wouldn't), he was still interested in sincerity and was singing for his own enjoyment.
	www.mp3.com /albums/36643/summary.html (515 words)

	Amazon.ca: Real Mccoy A Novel: Books: Darin Strauss (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The naive and monomaniacal McCoy soon departs for New York City, where he uses his newfound trickery to conquer the boxing world, marry a Broadway starlet, and become a minor celebrity and the origin of a national phenomenon.
		The scenes of young Virgil starting out his career and assuming his identity (as "McCOy") on a fateful train trip were the highlight for me, as well as his curious first marriage to a poor midwestern girl who never had a clue what made her husband tick.
		The Real McCoy is a fictionalized account of a turn-of-the century boxing champ and flim flam man who is possibly the source of the phrase, he's the real McCoy.
	www.amazon.ca /Real-Mccoy-Novel-Darin-Strauss/dp/0525946519 (1440 words)

	Daily Radio Broadcast::To Restrain Temptation, Understand It (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		McCoy discovered his opponent's disability, and he wasted no time in using it to his advantage.
		Near the end of the third round McCoy stepped back a pace, dropped his arms, pointed to his opponents corner indicating that the bell had rung.
		Not by the dastardly thing that McCoy did, but the very fact that he would use the subtlety of Satan to get his opponent.
	www.backtothebible.org /broadcasts/radio/today.php/18257?page=3 (423 words)

	EMT City - Paramedic and EMT Forum and Chat :: View topic - "The Real McCoy"
		In the 1890's, a boxer by the name Charles "kid" McCoy used to feign illness or spread rumors prior to a fight to psych out his opponnets.
		There are at least half a dozen theories that argue that one of the myriad McCoys of America at the end of the nineteenth century is the genuinely real McCoy that led to this common expression, meaning the real thing.
		It is said that McCoy had so many imitators who took his name in boxing booths in small towns throughout the country that eventually he had to bill himself as Kid “The Real” McCoy, and the phrase stuck.
	www.emtcity.com /phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=85605 (923 words)

	The Austin Chronicle Books: In Person: Darin Strauss at BookPeople
		Like Chang and Eng, his marvelous 2000 debut, The Real McCoy uses the life (lives, in the case of the former's conjoined twins) of a major historical player whose fame is largely untapped as good clay to sculpt an interesting story, taking great liberties with details in the process.
		Strauss referenced the advice of his former teacher E.L. Doctorow to "do the least amount of research possible" when writing fiction set in the past to be sure the facts support and color the story, not dominate it.
		In history, Charles "Kid" McCoy was a dominant boxer in the 1890s and early 1900s.
	www.austinchronicle.com /gyrobase/Issue/story?oid=oid:95966 (652 words)

	nursery rhymes
		So whenever they had to sneeze themselves, they said "God help me." Their prayers were answered and they were the only surviving members of the district.
		1-Charles ("Kid") McCoy was a world class welter weight champion who was unbeatable in his class for many years.
		McCoy struck the man (lightly, of course!) and he collapsed.
	www.lclark.edu /~ria/OTHERW~1.HTM (757 words)

	Bookreporter.com - THE REAL McCOY by Darin Strauss
		This time it's "Kid" McCoy, loosely based on a real man --- a boxer, a charlatan, a lover, a scam artist.
		It not only brings McCoy back to life but America at the turn of the century as well.
		'Kid' McCoy (born Virgil Selby, but he keeps that under wraps, unless, of course, it helps in a scam) is a wiry fellow and one who knows how to fight (particularly since learning a corkscrew punch from flimflammer extraordinaire Johnnie Gold, a Chinese con man he met at a work camp out West).
	www.bookreporter.com /reviews/0452284414.asp (528 words)

	ReadingGroupGuides.com - The Real McCoy by Darin Strauss
		"Kid" McCoy was a man of many talents and faces: championship boxer, jewel thief, scam artist, and one of the most married men in America.
		Unfolding against the tumultuous backdrop of history, his story is a fascinating mirror of the times as he becomes a legend and a symbol of all that's true in America.
		The Real McCoy is an audacious and unforgettable novel about identity, illusion, and the pursuit of life long love.
	www.readinggroupguides.com /guides3/real_mccoy1.asp (772 words)

	When you seek facts, make sure you get the real McCoy
		Various sources say the phrase refers to a barroom encounter with boxer Kid McCoy, whom a fellow drinker thought was a poser until he got slugged.
		David Feldman in "Who Put the Butter in Butterfly," published in 1989 by Barnes & Noble, says Kid McCoy, a boxer in the 1890s whose real name was Norman Selby, was beset by imitators and so had to name himself Kid "the Real" McCoy.
		The late Alfred E. Smith, appealed to for light, once derived it from the name of a Bowery oracle named McCoy, whose word on any subject was accepted as the lowdown...
	www.miamitodaynews.com /news/060622/story-viewpoint.shtml (929 words)

	The Mavens' Word of the Day (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		My parents recently purchased an antique vase that bears the logo of "McCoy." They were delighted with their find, claiming that McCoy vases were so popular that they are the origin of the phrase the real McCoy.
		The Nelson McCoy Pottery in Ohio wasn't founded until 1910, and the phrase is older than that, so there is probably no connection.
		It appears that the earliest citation with the spelling "McCoy" referring to whiskey is from 1908.
	www.randomhouse.com /wotd/index.pperl?date=20010606 (539 words)

	Jo Sports Inc.
		History: Kid McCoy was born on October 13, 1972 in Indiana.
		Presented here is an antique pinback of Kid McCoy.
		There is paper in the back that says "Try on time starch, soda and yeast." The button was made by The Whitehead and Hoag Company.
	www.josportsinc.com /catalog/view.php?id=4643 (86 words)

	SportingNews.com - College Football - Franchione apologizes for McCoy hit
		Heard was ejected for his hit on McCoy after the quarterback had just thrown his third interception late in the game.
		On the Longhorns' last possession, McCoy was knocked down again and had to be carted off the field after suffering a pinched nerve.
		Your comments are almost worse than the hit....the play was basically over and McCoy was starting to remove his helmet.
	www.sportingnews.com /yourturn/viewtopic.php?t=154791 (1202 words)

	Genealogy - McCoy
		If, however, you claim to be a "real" McCoy by birth, our advice to you would be to quietly drop the Mc and simply remain coy.
		The pessimistic doctor in Star Trek who was always grumpy, took the piss out of Spock and made all his diagnosis with nothing more than a mobile phone which made a funny noise.
		The "Kid" had a penchant for fixed fights and double crosses.
	www.firstfoot.com /geneolagy/mccoy.htm (246 words)

	A Con Man's Search for Self - June 15, 2002 - Library Journal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The true-life Kid McCoy, or "The Corkscrew Kid," undeniably won the welterweight crown from Tommy Ryan in 1896, was oft-married (including three times to the same woman), was convicted of murder in 1924, committed suicide in 1940, and was later elected to the Boxing Hall of Fame.
		Strauss's McCoy is also a pugilist ladies' man as well as a jewel thief, con artist, and "the most married man in America." His raffish and lyrical adventures provide the novel's trajectory as McCoy cons and scraps and weds his way across the rich landscape of early 20th-century America.
		The hero of The Real McCoy steals a dying man's identity in Indiana and learns his career-making corkscrew punch at the hands of a Chinese track worker in Utah; battered but victorious after winning his welterweight title at the Coney Island Athletic Club, he finds the love of his life at ringside.
	www.libraryjournal.com /article/CA220862.html (747 words)

	The Real McCoy
		McCoy was bedeviled by imitators and so took great pains to assure audiences at his bouts that he was indeed the real McCoy.
		But while Kid McCoy certainly existed, there is no evidence connecting him and the phrase, the real McCoy.
		Yet another theory asserts that "McCoy" was originally "Macao," and that the real McCoy meant pure heroin imported from that Chinese island.
	www.southernreader.com /SouthRead8.7.html (1596 words)

	Elijah McCoy Summary
		The son of former slaves from Kentucky, he revolutionized the industrial machine industry with his lubricator cup, which allowed small amounts of oil to drip into a machine as it worked.
		Elijah Mccoy Born May 2, 1844 (Colchester, Ontario, Canada) Died October 10, 1929 (Eloise, Michigan) Inventor Engineer American inventor Elijah McCoy patented a lubricating (reducing friction between two solid objects) device for locomotive engines that...
		Life Elijah McCoy was born in Colchester in the Province of Canada (now Ontario, Canada), to George McCoy and Mildred Goins, both runaway slaves from Kentucky i...
	www.bookrags.com /Elijah_McCoy (223 words)

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