Once, Bertie Shields was going to be a boxer. This was in 1975, when he was in the U.S. Army stationed in South Korea, certain there wasn't a serviceman in that country who could beat him. It was his ticket out, the one chance for a Guyanan immigrant by way of Washington to make something of his ... -
A Son, a Chance, a Dream
Once, Bertie Shields was going to be a boxer. This was in 1975, when he was in the U.S. Army stationed in South Korea, certain there wasn't a serviceman in that country who could beat him. It was his ticket out, the one chance for a Guyanan immigrant by way of Washington to make something of his ...-
By Les Carpenter