RING magazine aug. 1961

[bigjake]

does anyone have a copy of this magazine?it has Archie Moore on the cover.

[KOKid]

Yes, I have that one.
How can I help?

[red cobra]

man, I wish I had a collection of those old vintage Ring mags..and Boxing Illustrated too.

[Senya13]

Except for big fights, the Ring's coverage of fights was pretty poor. Very short descriptions. Even AP or UPI next-day reports were better a lot of time.

[red cobra]

Boxing Illustrated, esp back in it's glory days..the 70's..had very solid fight coverage IMO.

[bigjake]

Originally Posted by red cobra

man, I wish I had a collection of those old vintage Ring mags..and Boxing Illustrated too.

i have all the boxing illustrateds from the first issue[1958] to the last before changing their name also all issues of boxing and wrestling in the 1950's,[i believe 71 issues in total] and the other 1 by the same name from the early 1960's[ about 26 issues]

[Skins]

Go to ebay. Type boxing magazines in search and check it out

[bigjake]

i found a boxing decanter 20 years ago i forget where,its lionstone made in 1974 i was told it was ali and chuvalo in there second fight.it maybe but no names are on it its about12 " tall,anyone collect these?

[brickfists]

im very interested in starting a collection of ring magazine i have most of the recent issues from the last five years but does anyone know whether or not the very first issues are hard to come buy ?

[KOKid]

Originally Posted by brickfists

im very interested in starting a collection of ring magazine i have most of the recent issues from the last five years but does anyone know whether or not the very first issues are hard to come buy ?

Old Ring mags pop up on Ebay from time to time, so they are available for those who are looking for them.
Anything going back to the 1950s are not too hard to find.

The older ones are harder to find, but they too do turn up every once in a while.
Be warned though, that those tend to go for outrageous prices.
A bound volume for all the 1922 editions was up for sale recently - I think it sold for just over $5000.

A few years ago I was offered complete sets of The Ring 1922-1930.
The seller's asking price was $25,000.
No thanks.


From what I'm told there are only 14 complete collections of The Ring in the world.
One of them belonged to Hank Kaplan, who donated his entire library to the Brooklyn Library upon his death a few years ago.
I believe his library was valued at more than 2 million dollars, so you can imagine the sheer size of it.

Brooklyn Library has had several people working full days for a couple of years, just going through and indexing it.
It only opened to the public a couple of months ago.
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My Ring collection is complete from 1928.
A couple of the volumes in my collection were previously owned by Jim Jacobs.
I think that is pretty cool.

[sweetsci]

It's very cool that the Brooklyn Library is digitizing Mr. Kaplan's collection for internet usage by researchers.

[jdempsey85]

Originally Posted by sweetsci

It's very cool that the Brooklyn Library is digitizing Mr. Kaplan's collection for internet usage by researchers.

amazing when will they be starting this?

[sweetsci]

Originally Posted by jdempsey85

amazing when will they be starting this?

No idea - I read it when I clicked the link in the previous post.

It'd sure be great if it was free access for everybody.

[Longhhorn71]

What about World Boxing and International Boxing?.......those were pretty good mags too.

[bigjake]

Originally Posted by Longhhorn71

What about World Boxing and International Boxing?.......those were pretty good mags too.

boxing and wrestling during the 50's wasn't bad either.about 71 issues total,it started out as just wrestling for the first 6 or 7 issues.