I agree that there were many others more deserving of the title shot at Dempsey than Miske at the time. I also agree that Miske's best day's were...
Thanks, I'm anxious to get it out. In the meantime I'm working on another about Tony Zale with one of his nephews. We're making good progress on...
Yes, it's been finished for quite a while now. Still trying to find a publisher for it.
My only interest was pertaining to the comment about fixed Miske fights, nothing else. Here's some dope on the Brennan - Miske fight: "Billy...
Thanks Burt, I agree that Miske was in a period of remission as far as his illness was concerned when he fought Dempsey for the title and still a...
"The problem is that people who are fans of Miske or try to build his reputation up play both sides of the fence. To put his post Dempsey career...
By the way, that note from Fleischer was from 1953.
Fleischer's a hard guy for me to figure out. On one hand he comes out and says of the 6-round fight between Ketchel and Langford that he thinks...
No getting around it, Greb deserved a shot at Dempsey as much as Langford did at Johnson after Johnson won the title, in fact, Greb deserved it...
Geroge Siler
"I'm sure you have read Laney's piece "Two Visits With Sam Langford", it seems we will never know for sure." Maybe not, like I said it ended up...
I referred to all of the following: Philadelphia Public Ledger, Philadelphia Record, Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, New York Evening World, New...
"Clay I haven't written a book on Langford ,but from what I have gathered over the years he did not know when he was born and pulled a date out of...
"no need to read the biased book which was written by Langfords reletive. i prefer to go by the newspapers of the day and many reporters at...
"Langford was 23 years old when he fought Johnson." I am still convinced that Langford was born in 1886 and not 1883, and was therefore only 20...
