Larry Merchant

Name: Larry Merchant

    Larry Merchant (born February 11, 1931)
    • Former sportswriter and longtime commentator for HBO Sports presentations of HBO World Championship Boxing, Boxing After Dark and HBO pay-per-view telecasts.
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Merchant

Favorite Book: "The Killings of Stanley Ketchel" by James Carlos Blake

"I got a big kick, or punch, out of a recent read, the novelization of the life and times of the James Dean of boxing, "The Killings of Stanley Ketchel" by John Carlos Blake. A century ago, before Jack Dempsey exploded out of the west, Ketchel was already a mythic figure for his middleweight-heavyweight melodrama with Jack Johnson, and for his wild life and tabloid death. As John Lardner wrote, "He was shot dead having breakfast with a woman not his wife.'"

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