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The Jim O'Hara Story:

Boxing, Dignity & StReet Smarts

BIBLIOGRAPHY
Early Rounds


Round 1: The Boxing Board


  • Dave Newhouse, Before Boxing Lost Its Punch, Foreword by John Madden (ebooks 2012). ​

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  • Don Riley, Don Riley’s Eye Opener, St. Paul Sunday Pioneer Press, June 13, 1976.​

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  • Terry Collins, Jim O’Hara Dies; He Ran the State Boxing Board, Minneapolis Star Tribune, January 21, 2002, page B5, column 1. 

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  •  Jim Wells, Jim O’Hara, 76, Boxing Official, St. Paul Pioneer Press, January 19, 2002, Obituaries, City Edition. 

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  • Harold Valan, Fight Referee Harold Valan Calls His Job Toughest of Pro Sports Officials, The Ring, August 1974, 12.

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  • Clay Moyle, Billy Miske: The St. Paul Thunderbolt 18-19 (Win By KO Publications 2011).

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  • Tom Powers, Boxing Lost a Friend with O’Hara’s Passing, St. Paul Pioneer Press, January 23, 2002, page D1, column 2.

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  • Christopher McDougall, Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Ever Seen, Chapter 32 (Alfred A. Knopf 2009), Kindle Edition.

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  • Don Riley’s Eye Opener, St. Paul Pioneer Press, June 7, 1976.

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  • Paul Gallico, Pity the Poor Giant (1938), included in George Kimball and John Schulian, At the Fights: American Writers on Boxing (Library of America 2011), Kindle Edition.

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  • Bert Randolph Sugar, Boxing’s Greatest Fighters 207 (The Lyons Press 2006).

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  • David Remnick, King of the World: Muhammad Ali and the Rise of an American Hero, Chapter 3 (Vintage Books 1999), Kindle Edition.

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  •  Joyce Carol Oates, On Boxing (HarperCollins e-books 2006), Kindle Edition (contains various essays by Oates).


  • Special Award to Jim O'Hara Deserving One, 13 (No. 1) IBF/USBA Reporter, 5 (December 1998).


  • Ronald Smothers, BOXING: I.B.F. Supervision Ends; Founder Gets 22 Months, The New York Times, February 15, 2001.

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  • Minnesota Boxing Great Seeks Return of State Commission, USATODAY.com, posted December 26, 2003 7:17 PM.

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  • Dennis Hevesi, Scott LeDoux, 62, Gritty Heavyweight Boxing Contender, The New York Times, August 13, 2011, page D7 (New York Edition).



Round 2: Dignity & Sportsmanship​

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  • Bert Randolph Sugar and Teddy Atlas, The Ultimate Book of Boxing Lists 13, 143 & 162 (Running Press 2010).


  • Tom Powers, Boxing Lost a Friend with O’Hara’s Passing, St. Paul Pioneer Press, January 23, 2002, page D1, column 2.

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  • Christopher Klein, Strong Boy: The Life and Times of John L. Sullivan, America's First Sports Hero, Chapter 7 (Lyons Press 2013), Kindle Edition.


  • LeRoy Neiman, All Told: My Art and Life Among Athletes, Playboys, Bunnies and Provocateurs, Chapter 1 (Lyons Press 2012), Kindle Edition. 


  • The Ring Boxing Encyclopedia and Record Book 19  (The Ring Book Shop 1979). 

  • Bert Randolph Sugar, Boxing’s Greatest Fighters 14, 15, 26, 40-42 & 314 (The Lyons Press 2006). 


  • Clay Moyle, Billy Miske: The St. Paul Thunderbolt 54 & 124-125 (Win By KO Publications 2011).


  • The Ring, June 1972, at 44-45. 


  •  www.genetunney.org.


  • Jack Cavanaugh, Tunney: Boxing’s Brainiest Champ and His Upset of the Great Jack Dempsey, Chapter 19 (Ballantine Books 2007), Kindle Edition. 


Round 3: The Unspeakable


  • 10-20 Year Sentence Given … For Mike Ehrich Slaying, St. Paul Pioneer Press, circa February 1952.


  • Dave Newhouse, Before Boxing Lost Its Punch, Introduction (ebooks 2012).


  • LeRoy Neiman, All Told: My Art and Life Among Athletes, Playboys, Bunnies and Provocateurs, Chapter 1 (Lyons Press 2012), Kindle Edition.


Round 4: The O'Hara Name & St. Paul


  • Jack Cavanaugh, Tunney: Boxing’s Brainiest Champ and His Upset of the Great Jack Dempsey, Chapter 1 (Ballantine Books 2007), Kindle Edition.


  • Bert Randolph Sugar and Teddy Atlas, The Ultimate Book of Boxing Lists, 78, 162, & 205 (Running Press 2010).


  • Bert Randolph Sugar, Boxing’s Greatest Fighters, 29, 314, & 336 (The Lyons Press 2006). 


  • Randy Roberts, Joe Louis: Hard Times Man, Chapter 7 (Yale University Press 2010), Kindle Edition. 


  • Don Boxmeyer, Bless Our Home/St. Joseph’s Orphanage, Run by Benedictine Nuns For More Than 100 Years, Finally Closed Its Doors In The 1960s. But Those Who Grew Up There Remember It well, St. Paul Pioneer Press, July 16, 1994, Express Section, page 1D. 


  • Dave Newhouse, Before Boxing Lost Its Punch, Round 2 (ebooks 2012).) 


  • Laura Hillenbrand, Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption, Chapter 11 (Random House 2010), Kindle Edition.


  • George A. Barton, Tommy Gibbons, Part III, The Ring, December 1959, 18, 19 and 57.


  • Les Sellnow, They Came to Fight: The Story of Upper Midwest Golden Gloves, 9-11 (Bang Printing 2013).​ 


Round 5: Ronald Reagan ​


  • Volume 122 Congressional Record No. 37, March 16, 1976, statement of Representative Joseph E. Karth.


  • George Kimball, Four Kings: Leonard, Hagler, Hearns, Duran, and the Last Great Era of Boxing, Chapter 9 (McBooks Press, Inc. 2008), Kindle Edition.


  • John E. Oden, Life In The Ring, 156 (Hatherleight Press 2009). 


  • Thomas Hauser, Muhammad Ali: His Life and Times, Chapter 5 (First eBook Publication 2012 (Initially Published in 1991), Kindle Edition.

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