Neil Francis Milbert
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LOCATION: Chicago, IL, United States
Sports Writer. Author of Mastering Boxing.
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Tony Zale was an American professional boxer, world middleweight (160 pounds) champion during the 1940s. (Read Gene Tunney’s 1929 Britannica essay on boxing.) Zale began his professional boxing career in 1934, but to make a living he spent much of 1935 and 1936 working in the steel mills of Gary.…
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