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Boxing

One of the half-dozen most famous Americans of the twentieth century steps into full daylight

The author of America’s best-loved baseball book speaks of his days as a reporter, of his time (unique among sportswriters) owning a team, and of his latest subject, Jack Dempsey, whose violent career he uses to illuminate an era

In the Navy we found parts to make a color television in 1946. Anything to watch the heavyweight championship.

In 1946 I was in the U.S. Navy, stationed at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C.
Some people think that the history of boxing as a glamorous business, as promotion rather than as sport, begins with Muhammad Ali and Don King. Before Ali, they say, boxing was I just a bunch of palookas punching each other.

How I Beat Jess Willard

Taking on all comers, he had always dropped his man—but his supreme moment came in bare-knuckle boxing’s last great fight

On Highway 11 on the outskirts of Hattiesburg, Mississippi, a roadside historical plaque bears this inscription:

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