burt bienstock please write a book

bb, is it true that you once ran away from home, and while you were gone, your family sold the house and moved?

 

You wouldn't have to write anything. You could just dictate stories to some writer. Maybe help edit it. There should be someone on here who could meet with you and do it.

 

Unfortunately, Burt can't run. He wooden legs, but real feet. Anyhow he caught on fire and burned to the ground . . . . .

 

Burt, from what I read here once, you must be the only man alive to have shaken hands not only with Ray Robinson, but with Jack Johnson! That's a great distinction !

 

Yep nik, I and my dad attended Hubert's flea circus on 42st near Bwy where the special attraction was a man who trained fleas to pull a small chariot. And downstairs in the basement the former great heavyweight champion Jack Johnson punched a boxing bag and shook hands with the customers. I didn't know much about Jack Johnson as I was too young at the time but recall standing in line with others and shaking his paw. I remember him wearing a beret. About a couple years later we read at home JJ was killed in an auto accident driving his auto to the Joe Louis/Bill Conn fight...By then I knew much, much more about
Jack Johnson...

 

burt doesn't need to write a book, we can just gather up all his past posts and edit them into a book for him :good

 

That sounds like a good idea! Maybe someone like Steve Compton could help out. He has already proven himself an accomplished writer, and seems like a decent guy... so the two should get along just fine.

 

You must be the only person on this forum that has met the great Sugar Ray Robinson. Would you drop all that with a flick of a switch, if you could meet the great Harry Greb though?

 

GLAAAAADLY b. To me the Ray Robinson I had seen as a welterweight ringside, was breathtaking to behold and was the greatest ALL AROUND fighter ever along with Benny Leonard, but what Harry Greb accomplished in a 300 bout career was simply surreal. Some less thoughtful posters [usually on ESB] belch out "well I don't rate him so high, cause I haven't seen Harry Greb on film". My reply is though you were not in the midst of a violent tornado personally, the violent path of destruction in the aftermath tells the results...Such is the case with
the "surreal" career of my all-time favorite Harry Greb, "the Iron City Express"...

 

burt, i could fill a book with the names of fighters i would have loved to have met and i bet you've met most of them on your side of the pond.
Joe Louis, Ike Williams, Lew Jenkins, Bummy Davis, Fritzie Zivic, Tony Galento, the list is endless.
You could easily fill a book with the comments from the champs, contenders,club fighters and the amateurs you've met.
Ps the few ex champs I've met have all been first class but Ken Buchanan stands out.

 

ka-boom!

 

That's true. That would be even easier than having someone take his dictation - he probably has already laid out most of his stories on here.