Before he lost both eyes to glaucoma, Calvin Williams, 47, boxed through a life that played out like a blues lyric, complete with troubled relationships and run-ins with the law. When he lost his sight, most of the boxers he was training abandoned him; only Mark Griffin of Andover and his 15 -year-old daughter, Annie, stayed. Now Williams coaches them by relying on hearing and touch. Above: In May, three weeks after the surgery that removed his second eye, Williams worked over a speed bag at Uppercut Boxing Gym in northeast Minneapolis.C1
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