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1 online resource |
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Includes index. |
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Benny Leonard was arguably the greatest lightweight champion of all time. With superb boxing skills and potent punching power, he fought over 200 times and suffered just five defeats. He spent his boyhood in a crime-ridden ghetto in Manhattan's Lower East Side, and was the greatest of a long line of Jewish boxers to emerge from the slums. Leonard was still only 19 when he knocked out Freddie Welsh to become world lightweight king in 1917. He defended the title eight times and retired as undefeated champion in 1925, to please the only woman he loved, his mother. But the 1929 Wall Street Crash w. |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Leonard, Benny, 1896-1947.
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Leonard, Benny, 1896-1947. |
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Boxers (Sports) -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography.
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Boxers (Sports) |
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New York (State) -- New York. |
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Biography
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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Print version: Jarrett, John. Great Benny Leonard. London : Pitch Publishing (Brighton) Limited, ©2021 |
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9781785319556 (electronic bk.) |
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1785319558 (electronic bk.) |
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9781785317866 |
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