Thank you for visiting my web page.
I hope you can come along for a fun ride, enjoying tales about growing up in a tight knit South Philly neighborhood called Grays Ferry. These stories are seen through the eyes of a skinny kid who takes up boxing and is working his way to his first real fight in the ring. Find out how he handles this new challenge. Enjoy the laughs.
Mike Rafferty
Author
The Last
Neighborhood
A South Philly Memoir
In these pages, we travel back in time to Grays Ferry, Philadelphia, a place where each neighborhood has its own corner, its own personality, and its own rules and challenges.
At a time when a kid’s neighborhood was the only world he knew, Michael grows up in South Philly as the son of a boxer. But this is no Rocky movie. This is reality—a skinny, unsure kid facing his inner battles and fears and trying to survive in a city of great streetfighters and athletes.
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