MEET THE AUTHOR

I hope the readers of Fitzie Fitzpatrick's boxing biography find the story more than typical. Fitzie fought during boxing's greatest era, starting with Jack Dempsey, the million-dollar man, and his enormous crowd appeal; Joe Louis, the first black champion since Jack Johnson; boxing surviving World War II; the return of world champions to the ring; post-war boxing boom; and the effect of television on the future of boxing.

Larry C. Burton