an excerpt from a 2006 Leonard Lopate interview with Douglas Century A Rough and Tumble Life Douglas Century reflects on the life of the gre...

from time: In Chicago, a regulation of the Illinois State Athletic Commission makes it obligatory to score prizefights by points, ten to a r...

I posted before on Barney Ross . An update, I believe I found the Ross family living at 355 Madison Street in 1910. Soon after they moved t...

below various pics of Joe Rollino rollino An excerpt from the nydailynews A former Coney Island strongman killed by a min...

audio: theme music from naked city and the police story I wonder whether Sal knew another KV pulp fiction writer, Jack Karney, when he live...

Al Bummy Davis - Publish at Scribd or explore others: Other Pol...

As long as we are on the boxing thread here's a slide show from July of 2007 that I never posted. A fascinating story about the boxer Al...

I discovered that in the 1930 census 25 year old Sid is living in Brooklyn with his wife Frances, nee Kalik. The address is 143 Dahill Road....

Sid listed as a contestant in a World Amateur Contest at Madison Square Garden. He's representing the Rutger's Gym and fighting in t...

Searching for nyc bakery images landed me fortuitously on artist Charles Miller's site with great illustrations of Jewish boxers. I used...

Some lower east side tough guys escaped the temptations around them by channeling their energy into the fight ring. I recently discovered th...

Jack Karney was my friend Richard's father. He wrote several pulp type detective and suspense novels. It was a big deal for me as a kid...