Neil Francis Milbert
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LOCATION: Chicago, IL, United States
Sports Writer. Author of Mastering Boxing.
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Barney Ross was an American professional boxer, world lightweight (135 pounds), junior welterweight (140 pounds), and welterweight (147 pounds) champion during the 1930s. (Read Gene Tunney’s 1929 Britannica essay on boxing.) Two years after Ross was born, his family moved to Chicago’s Maxwell…
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