According to family lore, my policeman grandfather was on duty at Yankee Stadium on the evening of June 22, 1938, when he started chatting with a man from out of town. The little guy had booked a ...

Boxer Joe Louis on Sept. 8, 1946; Joe Louis Barrow Jr. in The Clash of Nations: Joe Louis vs Max Schmeling More than 45 years after legendary 20th century boxer Joe Louis died at 66, his son is giving ...

Throughout history, there have been moments when sports represented something far greater than athletic competition. As the world drifted toward World War II, the two heavyweight boxing matches ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – “Boxing,” journalist Larry Merchant says in a documentary set to air this month, “is really the most personal of sports.” But when it came to two epic bouts in the 1930s between ...

Max Schmeling ist bis heute der einzige deutsche Box-Weltmeister aller Klassen. Zur Legende machte ihn jedoch ein Sieg in einem Nicht-WM-Kampf: der K.o. gegen den als unbesiegbar geltenden Joe Louis i ...

A documentary on Joe Louis and Max Schmeling debuts June 19 on The HISTORY Channel, 90 years after their first fight at Yankee Stadium in 1936.

Joe Louis Barrow Jr., son of the legendary 20th century heavyweight, took part in a new documentary on his father's life for The History Channel Boxer Joe Louis on Sept. 8, 1946; Joe Louis Barrow Jr.