“John L. Sullivan, champion pugilist of the world” — an E.W. Kemble print from 1883, the year that Sullivan began his tour of America.
Featured on PDR in the essay John L. Sullivan Fights America
In 1883, the Irish-American heavy-weight boxing champion John L. Sullivan embarked on an unprecedented coast-to-coast tour of the United States offering a prize to any person who could endure four rounds with him in the ring. Christopher Klein tells of this remarkable journey and how the railroads and the rise of the popular press proved instrumental in forging Sullivan into America's first sports superstar.
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John L. Sullivan, Champion Pugilist of the World
Date
1883
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