In the spring of 1980, long before he was the 'Baddest Man on the Planet,' 13-year-old was the shy, respectful houseguest of Camille Ewald and her longtime partner, legendary boxing trainer Cus D'Amato.Tyson must have been an anomaly as an African-American adolescent, recently released from reform school and living in the mostly white Hudson Valley town, where he was legally adopted by D'Amato. But inside the aging Victorian home on Thorpe Road, Tyson was just one of several aspiring boxers boarding with the septuagenarian couple.
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