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On Down the Sports Trail in a Big Sports Year
A wide wrap of 1940s sports glimpses features bookies at stadiums, Dodgers Havana camp, Freddy Fitzsimmons locker cap joke, Reds’ swagger in Tampa, Joe Louis training, Ken Overlin’s referee shock, Billy Soose victory, Eddie Brannick’s efforts, Joe DiMaggio’s hitting march, Bo-Bo Newsom’s confidence, and other vivid vignettes across baseball boxing and football withTaxing nostalgia and ironies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Dodgers
Havana
Freddy Fitzsimmons
Cincinnati Reds
Tampa
Joe Louis
Lou Nova
Ken Overtlin
Billy Soose
Soose
Eddie Brannick
Joe DiMaggio
Max Baergery
Low Chiozza
Giants
Alway
Gene Tunney
Joe Gordon
Bill Klein
Hans Lobert
Bill
Miami