Golden Age Boxing History

Almost a century in the making, my book on the truth behind the Baer-Campbell fight, exposure of the many myths about Max Baer, and the tragic life of Frankie Campbell, is now available globally. Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Google Books, Apple Books, Kobo, etc., and you can order from your favorite local/online bookstore too. "Then The World Moved On: The Brutal Truth Behind the Baer–Campbell Fight" by Catherine Johnson, knocks boxing history on its cauliflowered ear, with the most painstakingly researched and scrupulously detailed book ever written about the tragic end of Frankie Campbell, and Max Baer's shocking hand in his death. Preceded with a Foreword by Ray Mancini, the book chronicles not only Campbell's life and career, it exhaustively examines his fight with Baer, the resultant fallout and appalling coverup of the truth, and the horrific details of Baer's lies and manipulation of the event and its aftermath. A variety of original source materials, never accessed by previous historians, and going back a century, were thoroughly investigated and meticulously pieced together, among them newspapers, court transcripts, medical records, genealogical, archival, federal, state, and local records, along with psychological analysis and brain trauma study, as well as interviews with Campbell's family members, former pro fighters, and boxing historians. Along with over 1400 cited sources, over 150 rare photos, illustrations, and fight advertisements, the book also discusses the legendary men who made California a boxing mecca in the early Twentieth Century, and the popular venues where fights were held. Woven artfully into the narrative, is how the context of the times, the Golden Age of American Sports, the Roaring Twenties, Prohibition, and the Great Depression, affected the sport, and the lives of the men who molded the game.

@AnthonyAdragna I think it’s these four

@AnthonyAdragna Any idea on which 4 Dems?

20 nos from the Speaker's own party on a rule... my goodness...

@gardner_akiva @WarMonitor3

@WarMonitor3 This was today's lunch aboard the Lincoln, sent by a friend: Retards like you just post any shit. The sailors eat better than you Pakistani fake bots

The dinner of a sailor on the USS Abraham Lincoln after months at sea fighting in the Middle East-USA Today

@SWCrafted @WarMonitor3 Sure looks like a crop from 2023

@WarMonitor3 This was the food today 🇺🇸

Deniers should watch this series. After a Russian cosmonaut orbited Earth in 1961, NASA devoted the entire decade, billions of dollars, and multiple men’s lives, to planting a US flag on the Moon. 100,000s of people were involved in that process. It’s an impossibility they all kept a hoax quiet ffs. 🤦‍♀️

The space race was a big deal back then Russia has got into space first and both Russia and the US were desperate to raise their flag on the noon first If they hadn't made it the Russians would have made sure the world knew

@LWOSGarryWhite Thank you kindly, Sir !!

@BoxingGoldenAge Superbly researched and well-written book. I can’t recommend it enough!

On this day in 1904, Francesco Camilli aka Frankie Campbell was born in Hibbing, Minnesota. He would boast a record of 30-4-3 over his 6 year career, before he was intentionally and purposefully beaten to death (no I didn't stutter there) by future Heavyweight Champ Max Baer on 25 August 1930. My biography with 1400 primary sources on the brutal truth behind the Baer-Campbell fight, exposure of the many myths about Max Baer, and the tragic life of Frankie Campbell, is available at: a.co/d/gq4Zad1

Looking like a scene from the Wild West, heavyweight champ, Jack Johnson, and his crew train on the back roads outside of Reno, Nevada, before his "Fight of the Century" on 4 July, 1910 against James Jeffries.

On 20 July, 1920, former Heavyweight champion, Jack Johnson, surrendered to Billy Silver, deputy sheriff of Imperial County, California, and former trainer of Stanley Ketchel, at the Mexican border in Tijuana. He had been convicted in 1913 for violating the Mann Act, which forbade transportation of women across state lines for "immoral purposes," a law largely used to target his interracial relationships, but had fled the country. After the loss of his title at a fight in Havana, Cuba, in 1915 to Jess Willard, Johnson spent years of exile in Europe and South America, before he moved to Mexico by 1919. Upon his surrender, Johnson was escorted to Leavenworth Federal Prison in Kansas to begin a one-year sentence.

@AttorneyCrump With a leaking Ostomy bag you change up your external “gear” you don’t get surgery. He possibly had a leaking stoma (which is the “protrusion” where an Ostomy bag is attached over) from retraction, prolapse or stenosis.

Kohchise Jackson was forced to live with a leaking colostomy bag in prison because Corizon Health, a private prison healthcare company, decided his surgery was too expensive. It cost $919. They chose profit over his humanity. But he did matter. A federal jury agreed and awarded him $307.6 million. People over profits. Always.

@MattGlassman312 This!! “In my rough traveling suit, the uniform of a private with the straps of a lieutenant-general, I must have contrasted very strangely with a man so handsomely dressed, six feet high and of faultless form.”

There is no doubt in my mind that the best writings of any U.S. President are Grant's memoirs, and his recollections of Lee's surrender in Appomattox---161 year ago this today---are perhaps the best parts of those memoirs.

@MadeinusaOMG @SenBlumenthal Literally watched “Downfall” last night.

@SenBlumenthal Oh, this is just the first right wing of a much grander scheme - as we Europeans can see!

The White House, an iconic symbol of America, is the last place you’d expect foreign steel. Trump’s corrupt desecration knows no bounds. Without Congress approving, it’s blatantly illegal. I’ll continue investigating the problematic donations. nytimes.com/2026/04/08/us/…

@dylanmatt @dylanmatt messaged you. Pretty certain I found death certs for your great grandfather and grandfather. Both contain their DOB and POB.

@MacFarlaneNews Because people can’t afford ingredients for an Easter meal and the gas to drive to Gramma’s house so they’re venting on Twitter. 😉

A lot more chatter about the 25th amendment than some expected on this Easter Sunday … youtube.com/shorts/-cA-ZQu…

But on the flip side the U.S. Forest Service is closing 57 of its 77 research facilities in 31 states, along with nine regional offices, which currently manage 154 national forests. The majority of California R&D stations will be gone, along with field monitoring and laboratory access across the nation. Where's the intelligence behind this?

New Article Out: New Presidential Budget Supports Forest Service Wildland Firefighter Unification With USWFS, And Supports The Wildfire Intelligence Center. But it still needs approval. thehotshotwakeup.substack.com/p/new-presiden…

@TheSloBenz43 @historyinmemes What a load of shit. The recovered body parts landed in the Atlantic Ocean. The press literally covered the extensive water searched for weeks.

@historyinmemes Man you could be several miles away and a foot or hand could still land on your house 🫥

The Challenger disaster as seen from a nearby helicopter

@ThePulseBrief @historyinmemes I was around then. She didn't randomly win a contest. She was among ten finalists and was picked as the most physiologically grounded and physically fit. Then there was a media campaign and once again she stood above the rest in the public's mind.

@CynthiaAwuzie_ @historyinmemes This is Jay Watson out of Dallas. You're thinking of Uncle Walter Kronkite who announced JFK's death that afternoon. He took his reading glasses off to look at the wall clock to announce the official time of death, paused to swallow and teared up. The pause heard round the world.

That moment didn’t just interrupt television… it interrupted history. You could feel the shift in real time. No buildup. No warning. Just a sudden break… and the world wasn’t the same after. The calm voice. The pause. The glasses coming off. And then the words no one was ready to hear

The moment live television programming was suddenly interrupted to deliver the news of John F. Kennedy’s assassination in 1963.

@konstructivizm Previous generations had images of FDR and JFK on their walls. We had this image in poster size on ours. Ok and Farrah Fawcett a lil’ later for the fellows.

This photo of Earth, dubbed the Blue Marble, was taken by the Apollo 17 crew OTD in 1972 as they traveled to the Moon. It soon became one of the most widely-distributed photographs in history.