It’s as true in boxing as in many other walks of life. Lives lived vibrantly, colorfully, often outlive their active moments in time. Former heavyweight champion Max Baer last stepped into the ...

Jeremy Schaap, the author of Cinderella Man: James J. Braddock, Max Baer, and the Greatest Upset in Boxing History, takes a more nuanced view.

J.R. Moehringer’s chronicle of Max Baer Jr. struck me as a poignant portrait of a famous man’s son who is shadowboxing with his own ghost (“Mad Max,” Jan. 7). Although I admire the ...

It was the summer of 1935 and the stage was set for boxing’s next million-dollar gate. Joe Louis, the promising young knockout puncher from Detroit, had made a ...

Yet for the boxer and his manager, it would only be the beginning. ... a Max Baer or a Bengal tiger looks like a house pet,” Braddock once relayed of his famous 1935 fight against Baer.

Born Maximilian Adalbert Baer Jr. on December 4, 1937, in Oakland, California, Max Baer, Jr.’s parents were champion boxer Max Baer and Mary Ellen Sullivan. He was married to Joanne Kathleen ...

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Born Maximilian Adalbert Baer Jr. on December 4, 1937, in Oakland, California, Max Baer, Jr.’s parents were champion boxer Max Baer and Mary Ellen Sullivan. He was married to Joanne Kathleen ...