Billy Boston, the retired Welsh rugby star who was a figure of pilasses for black professional athletes in Great Britain, was a knight from King Charles III in a special ceremony to Buckingham Palace on Tuesday.Boston, 90, is widely considered one of the best to play Rugby League, the fastest and more free flow version of the game, with 13 players on a team instead of 15, as in Rugby Union. He spent most of his career with Wigan Warriors, where he marked 488 appearances from 1953 to 1968, and ended his career with a British record of 571 attempts, the equivalent of touchdown rugby in the American football.He was the first black player to represent Great Britain in his national Rugby League team, during a tour in Australia and New Zealand in 1954. He scored 24 attempts in 31 international a...