Category Archives: Boxing

Rediscovered: Frank Harris — His Own John Hancock

Posted on July 27, 2019 by Don

Last Autograph Hound weekend Kevin Cook dragged the Irish author Frank Harris into the foment via a book inscribed to the author of My Life and Loves from no less than Tod Robbins. The association interest was immense, for those … Continue reading →

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Remembered: 100 Years Ago Today

Posted on July 4, 2019 by Don

Yeah, you see the autographed pic of Dempsey, and your mind spins — you’re thinking it’s Autograph Hound Saturday! But it’s Thursday July 4th — and American Independence happened more than a hundred years ago, right? (That’s what I heard, anyway.) … Continue reading →

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Death Lit: Down and Out in Sweden

Posted on May 18, 2019 by Don

And yes, I keep chugging along with reviews on the side. This somewhat recent one is close enough to the wording I turned in to qualify for a link. Someone did sub in the term “mean streets” in place of … Continue reading →

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Two-Gun Bob: Brian Leno, Reporting Ringside

Posted on February 28, 2019 by Don

Whoa. Courtesy the production wizards over at The Cimmerian Press, yesterday Brian Leno popped out his second TriplePunchPack — Ringside with Robert E. Howard. Just an appetizer against the full feedbag of the book he’s working on, an in-depth look … Continue reading →

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Rediscovered: Carnera v. Young

Posted on November 30, 2018 by Don

Woke up with an email from Brian Leno lurking in the inbox, and here it is, every word, plus the attachment. Brian obviously is going full-tilt after his hobby of autograph collecting (Terry Moore and Ben Johnson starred in the … Continue reading →

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Rediscovered: Floyd Salas Meets Donald Sidney-Fryer

Posted on November 6, 2017 by Don

Left: Floyd Salas. Right: Donald Sidney-Fryer. (Background: gold statue by Floyd titled “The Boxer.”) I’ve had the idea that Floyd Salas and Donald Sidney-Fryer, “a pair of similar opposites” (to use a term Leo Grin came up with) really ought … Continue reading →

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NONPAREIL: The Robert E. Howard WORD OF THE YEAR

Posted on August 22, 2017 by Don

For some of us, Robert E. Howard is nonpareil — which my India paper copy of Webster’s Third says is “Something of unequaled excellence; a nonesuch; a paragon,” and, while you might not think of it, is a word “often … Continue reading →

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Two-Gun Bob: He Was a Contenda

Posted on June 11, 2017 by Don

Eighty-one years ago today the Texas pulpster Robert E. Howard killed himself at the age of thirty. To commemorate the date, let’s bring Brian Leno back into the ring to talk about one of Howard’s predictions on boxing, one of … Continue reading →

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Two-Gun Bob: Appreciating an American Tough Guy

Posted on April 2, 2017 by Don

John D. Haefele told me I was way off the other day when I said that one of his chapters in the upcoming Lovecraft: The Great Tales ran 50,000 words, at least in rough draft. He figured it probably was … Continue reading →

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Rediscovered: From Two-Gun Bob to Ali

Posted on June 4, 2016 by Don

The death of Mohammed Ali yesterday spurred our resident Mean Streets boxing expert, Brian Leno — now in the thick of writing a book on Robert E. Howard and the world of pugilism he knew — to show how closely … Continue reading →

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