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The Jim O'Hara Story:

Boxing, Dignity & StReet Smarts

BIBLIOGRAPHY
Late Rounds


Round 12: Education

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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. 


  • A.J. Liebling, The Sweet Science (The Viking Press 1956). 


  • LeRoy Neiman, All Told: My Art and Life Among Athletes, Playboys, Bunnies and Provocateurs, Chapters 1 and 3 (Lyons Press 2012), Kindle Edition.


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


Round 13: The Businessman


  • ​George Kimball, Four Kings: Leonard, Hagler, Hearns, Duran, and the Last Great Era of Boxing, Chapter 2 (McBooks Press, Inc. 2008), Kindle Edition.


  • Phil Pepe, Come Out Smokin’ Joe Frazier: The Champ Nobody Knew, Chapter entitled The Fight (Division Books 2012), Kindle Edition.


  • Terry Marsh, Ex-Golden Glover, Scott LeDoux, Upper Midwest Golden Gloves Year Book, 47, March 19, 1982.


  • Vic Tedesco and Trudi Hahn, I Always Sang For My Father (Or Anyone Who Would Listen), 21-23 and 171 (Syren Book Company 2006).


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


  • Tad Vezner, Jerry Hurley: A Life of Hard Work Made Him St. Paul’s “Mozzarella King,” St. Paul Pioneer Press, July 29, 2010.


  • A.J. Liebling, The Sweet Science (The Viking Press 1956), which includes an Introduction and the essay entitled Big Fellows Again: New Champ.


  •  Bert Randolph Sugar, Boxing’s Greatest Fighters, 17, 43, and 267 (The Lyons Press 2006).


  • Ernest Hemingway, Men Without Women, 71 (Collier Books, First Scribner Classic/Collier Edition 1986), which includes the short story Fifty Grand.


  • Roger Kahn, A Flame of Pure Fire: Jack Dempsey And The Roaring ’20s, Chapter 10 (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 1999), Kindle Edition.


Round 14: The Storyteller


  • Jim O’Hara, The Sixteenth Round, 9 (No. 24) Saint Paul Area Downtowner 15 (April 17, 1980).


  • George Kimball, Four Kings: Leonard, Hagler, Hearns, Duran, and the Last Great Era of Boxing, Chapter 3 (McBooks Press, Inc. 2008), Kindle Edition.


  • Bert Randolph Sugar, Boxing’s Greatest Fighters, 20, 23, 29, 79, 151, 159, and 171 (The Lyons Press 2006).  


  • Don Boxmeyer, Through It All, Jimmy O’Hara Fought the Good Fight, St. Paul Pioneer Press, January 22, 2002, page B1, column 2.


  • Sean T. Kelly, Remembering St. Paul’s Irish Boxers, 13 Irish Gazette 4 (January-February 1998).


  • Jack Cavanaugh, Tunney: Boxing’s Brainiest Champ and His Upset of the Great Jack Dempsey, Chapter 12 (Ballantine Books 2007), Kindle Edition.


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


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


Round 15: Unselfish Purpose


  • Don Boxmeyer, Through It All, Jimmy O’Hara Fought the Good Fight, St. Paul Pioneer Press, January 22, 2002, page 1B, column 3.


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


  • James Cagney, Cagney By Cagney, 179 (Pocketbook Edition February 1977).


Round 16: Irish Cross & Boxing Gloves


  • Paul Levy, The Fighting Frenchman: Minnesota's Boxing Legend Scott LeDoux (University of Minnesota Press 2016).


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


  • Patrick Myler, Joe Louis vs. Max Schmeling: Fight of the Century, Prologue: The Visit (Arcade Publishing 2012), Kindle Edition.


  • The New Jerusalem Bible, Doubleday Publications 1990.), Psalm 24 and Matthew 25.