Two photographs showing Sullivan’s physique in the “Report of Dr D.A. Sargent’s Examination”, and appendage to Sullivan’s autobiography, Life and Reminiscences of a 19th Century Gladiator (1892).
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.
Also appearing in the essay…
John L. Sullivan, from the Back
Date
1892
From
Life and Reminiscences of a 19th Century Gladiator
