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Forgotten Champions: Jake Kilrain, George Godfrey, and Paul Pender
Visiting the gravesites of Massachusetts fighters has become something of a regular pastime for my girlfriend and me. I look up the cemeteries and she looks...
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Massachusetts Memento Mori: Jack Sharkey and Ernie Schaaf
Massachusetts has been the home of many world champions. But continuing to look for gravesites to visit, I was learning the Bay State was not always...
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Resting Places For: Sam Langford, Joe Jennette, Tony Galento
In his collection Leaves of Grass, the poet Walt Whitman is asked by a child, What is the grass? The grass, says Whitman, is many things. It...
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Visiting The First Black Champion and The Boston Strongman
The cemeteries in New England aren’t like the ones I knew in my childhood. I grew up in Ohio, where the cemeteries tended to be large,...