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Extract from the Canastota Travel Guides:
Just before Syracuse, at exit 34 from I-90, nondescript
CANASTOTA
is the home of the
International Boxing Hall of Fame
(May-Sept daily 9am-5pm; Oct-April Mon-Sat 9am-5pm, Sun 9am-4pm; $4; tel 315/697-7095), a mecca for boxing enthusiasts but easily skipped by anyone else. Canastota's links with boxing go back to early in the nineteenth century, and this ten-thousand-strong village has produced two postwar world champions: Carmen Basilio, who took away the middleweight crown of Sugar Ray Robinson in an epic 1958 encounter, and Billy Backus, a welterweight title-holder during the early 1970s. All the greats are repres...
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