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Uncle Eddie boxed Barney Ross in family boxing memory
A personal reminiscence traces Uncle Eddie's amateur claim of boxing Barney Ross, notes on Ross's fame, and Eddie's later life including a Morrison Hotel era, encounters with Jack Dempsey, and a 69 year old stroke that slowed him but did not erase memory.
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Ira Berkow
NEA
New York
Eddie
Barney Ross
Melvin
Chicago
Ross
Chicago West Side
Midwest
Graziano
Sugar Ray
Louis
John Garfield
Ben
Roosevelt Road
Max
Uncle Eddie
Slugger
Croydon
Morrison Hotel
the Morrison
Jack Dempsey
Kibbitz
Jack
Dempsey