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 ...

Baer, whose father was Jewish, became a national hero in 1933 when he soundly thrashed German boxer Max Schmeling before 60,000 spectators at Yankee Stadium a few months after Hitler rose to power.

And Baer's son, Max Baer Jr., who starred in hit TV show The Beverly Hillbillies, is irate over his father's portrayal. "The portrayal of my father in Cinderella Man couldn't have been more wrong ...

Born Maximilian Adalbert Baer Jr. on December 4, 1937, in Oakland, California, Max Baer, Jr.’s parents were champion boxer ...

Baer was born in 1937. He’s the son of boxing heavyweight champion Max Baer. In the early 1960s, he began his career in Hollywood with appearances in TV shows such as Maverick, Sugarfoot, 77 ...

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.

On top of that, the great Max Baer, who won the heavyweight championship in 1934, spent time in Sacramento and was buried here after he died in 1959 from a heart attack.And because of its boxing ...

Max Baer went on to become Chief Justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. He died at age 74, leaving a wife, ... Jr. Buddy Baer, a relative of Maximilian Baer, was a boxer and actor.

Some of Pennsylvania’s highest-ranking officials gathered to celebrate the life of Max Baer, the state supreme court’s chief justice at Duquesne University on Tuesday.

Max Baer is arguably best known today for siring Max Baer Jr., the actor who played Jethro Bodine on the classic TV series The Beverly Hillbillies (1962) ...

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 ...