She and her husband, a sign painter and church muralist, name the boy Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr. Twelve-year-old Cassius rides his new bike to the Louisville Service Club's convention, where ...

“Cassius Slept Here.” “Dad used to compare him to Ted Williams because he had such great hand-eye coordination,” Joe Martin Jr. said. By 1960, everybody who knew Clay realized he had a ...

Muhammad Ali, born Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr, rose from a poor family in segregated Louisville, Kentucky to international fame, winning three heavyweight boxing titles and becoming a civil rights ...

The skinny: Hunsaker was the police chief of Fayetteville, W.Va., when he fought Cassius Clay, who won a six-round unanimous decision. Hunsaker’s eyes were swollen shut by the end of the fight ...

Cassius was named in honor of the legendary boxer Cassius Clay, who later changed his name to Muhammad Ali. His immense size and strength made the name a fitting tribute. Professor Grahame Webb ...