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Nat Fleischer
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HIP, NJ. (History in Practice)
Part of a series of personal profiles written by Nat Fleischer, the founding editor of The Ring magazine. A legendary figure in the sport of boxing, Fleischer witnessed many of these historic bouts firsthand and presents here a biography of the American "King of the Lightweights," Benny Leonard.
Born in 1896 in a Jewish ghetto in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, Benny Leonard is often championed as the greatest Lightweight boxer of all time. His thirteen-year reign as an undefeated champion remains to this day longer than any boxer of his class. A true celebrity in his era, Leonard began his career as a teenaged boxer, later working in vaudeville, then eventually acting in motion pictures. Though he was lauded by many and recognized as a Jewish-American hero, his career would fade and turn for the worse when personal and financial troubles arose.
This biography contains many photographs of Benny Leonard, his associates, and opponents, making it an essential part of boxing historiography.
Originally published in 1947.
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