Lightweight boxer Dick McTaggart who won 'Lightweight' gold at the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne, November 30, 1956
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DICK McTAGGART was the finest and most successful amateur Scotland ever produced, and also perhaps the most underappreciated boxer in the history of the sport, north of the border.
A child of poverty and product of Dundee, he was born in 1935 at a time when Scotland and Britain’s working class were experiencing the tender delights of Tory-imposed austerity.
Purified by economic pain, the McTaggart family, like every other family, was forced to learn the art of survival.
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