Pittsburgh Boxing: A Pictorial History
by Douglas Cavanaugh (Author)
PITTSBURGH’S GREATEST SPORTS LEGACY, RECLAIMED. Pittsburgh is a city that has always been acutely aware of its sports heritage, from the Steelers to the Pirates to the Penguins. Yet over the passage of time it has somehow managed to forget perhaps its most successful sporting tradition of all – its professional boxing legacy. In an attempt to exhume what sportswriter Roy McHugh dubbed “a lost civilization,” this book recalls many of the Steel City’s forgotten prizefighting heroes of yesteryear and brings them back to life in pictures and words. Pioneers such as Dominick McCaffrey and Jack McClelland. Hungry clubfighters like Whitey Wenzel and Eddie Wimler, along with early African_American standouts like Eddie Carver and Young Bijou. There are top contenders like Bob Baker, Johnny Ray and Patsy Brannigan and uncrowned champs like Charley Burley, Tommy Yarosz and Wee Willie Davis. Then of course, there are the world champions themselves: Billy Conn, Fritzie Zivic, Sammy Angott, Frank Klaus, Jackie Wilson, the incomparable Harry Greb (considered by many experts to be the greatest pound for pound fighter of all-time), and many others. These and many more featured inside in all their fistic glory, hopefully to reassert their rightful place among Pittsburgh’s greatest sports heroes.
Product details
Paperback: 196 pages
Publisher: Independently published (May 4, 2020)
Language: English
ISBN-13: 979-8640587630
ASIN: B087SJWFBY
Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 0.5 x 11 inches
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