The story of the hard-hitting, hard-drinking Gilded Age Boxer who became the country’s first sports superstar and Irish-American hero
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“The most wicked men in New York City skimmed along the surface of the Hudson River. With the sun safely tucked beneath the horizon on the night of May 16, 1881, a tug hauled a barge laden with an unsavory cargo of pickpockets, gamblers, swindlers, drinkers, and drifters.”
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Strong Boy: The Life and Times of John L. Sullivan, America’s First Sports Hero by Christopher Klein from Audissey Media on Vimeo.
TESTIMONIALS
“This admirable biography has a Citizen Kane feel to it: Strong Boy both celebrates John L. Sullivan as a sports hero and lights up the pathos of Sullivan the man-child. If he could ‘lick any son-of-a bitch in the world,’ John L. could out-drink and out-eat all contenders. The first million-dollar man in sports died broke. Christopher Klein does justice to the legend, the man, and the times.”
