Robert Lipsyte); a broadcaster (Howard Cosell); a labor leader (Marvin Miller); a boxing cutman (Whitey Bimstein); a bookie (Arnold Rothstein); and an early Zionist leader (Max Nordau).
“Howard Cosell was an attorney, and all of a sudden, he became a sportscaster. So was he from the boxing world? No. Was he covering boxing on ABC? Yes. Was he from the NFL world, did he play footbal ...
Boxing has long been a sport that captures the imagination, but it was the advent of broadcasting that truly made it an American pastime. In the early days, families would gather around their ...