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EPISODE SUMMARY
Join us this week on Hello Old Sports for the first of a two part episode series about the history of the World Heavyweight Boxing Championship. In this episode we talk about the "Golden Age" of the heavyweight title, a time which lasted for most of the 20th Century. We talk about men like Jack Johnson, Jack Dempsey, Jou Louis, and Muhammad Ali: Who were these men and why was the title they held so revered by their fellow Americans? And be sure to join us next week for Part II as we talk about the title's decline over the last thirty years.
Also, be sure to stay tuned after the episode for bonus content as we reveal the winner of the All-Time New York World Series between the All-Time Yankees and the All-Time New York National League Team.
Read the entire episode blog post and check out some other cool info regarding this episode here.
BOOKS TO COMPLIMENT THIS EPISODE
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
A Flame of Pure Fire: Jack Dempsey and the Roaring 20s
Beyond Glory: Joe Louis vs Max Schmeling, and a World on the Brink
At the Fights: American Writers on Boxing
When the Heavyweight Title Mattered: Five Championship Fights That Captivated the World (1910 - 1971)
The Boxing Kings: When American Heavyweights Ruled the Ring
HELLO OLD SPORTS BACKGROUND
Each week on “Hello, Old Sports” Andrew and Dan Neumann examine a different sports history topic—baseball, basketball, football, hockey, boxing, and anything else that comes to mind. We’ll travel back to 1920 to relive the founding of the Negro Leagues and Babe Ruth’s first season with the New York Yankees.
Or to 1967 to relive the closing drive of the “Ice Bowl” between the Green Bay Packers and the Dallas Cowboys. Maybe even all the way back to 1884 and the first “World Series” between the Providence Grays of the National League and the New York Metropolitans of the American Association.
Andrew and Dan Neumann are your hosts and these brothers know a thing or two about living in some crazy sport's towns.
