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The Jim O'Hara Story:

Boxing, Dignity & StReet Smarts

BIBLIOGRAPHY
Middle Rounds


​Round 6: The Boxer


  • Mike Silver, The Arc of Boxing: The Rise and Decline of the Sweet Science (McFarland & Company, Inc. 2008), which includes remarks by Teddy Atlas, Kindle Edition.


  • Recording of Jim O'Hara played at the Minnesota Boxing Hall of Fame Induction Banquet, October 3, 2014.


  • Bert Randolph Sugar and Teddy Atlas, The Ultimate Book of Boxing Lists, 18, 78, 143, 161-162, 205, and 221 (Running Press 2010).


  • Bert Randolph Sugar, Boxing’s Greatest Fighters, 1, 10, 17, 20, 23, 33, 43-45, 49, 69, 76, 116, 124, 237, 247, 267, 314, and 336 (The Lyons Press 2006).


  • The Ring Boxing Encyclopedia and Record Book, 10 (The Ring Book Shop 1979).


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


  • Gary Allison, The Final Round (2013), Kindle Edition. 


  • The Minnesota Boxing Hall of Fame website, 2013, on Charley Kemmick, welterweight champion of America, 1891-1895.


  • Jim Wells, Jack Gibbons Dies At Age 86, St. Paul Pioneer Press, February 5, 1999.


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


  • Patrick Reusse, The Fighting Flanagan Brothers,  Minneapolis Star Tribune, Sunday February 13, 2000. 


  • James S. Hirsch, Hurricane: The Miraculous Journey of Rubin Carter (Houghton Mifflin Company 2000).


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


  • Joe Louis, How I Would Have Clobbered Clay, The Ring, February 1967, 40.


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

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  • A.J. Libeling, The Sweet Science (The Viking Press 1956)(which includes the essay entitled The Big Fellows: Boxing with the Naked Eye as well as the essay Kearns by a Knockout).


  • George Kimball, Four Kings: Leonard, Hagler, Hearns, Duran, and the Last Great Era of Boxing, Chapter 1 (McBooks Press, Inc. 2008), Kindle Edition.


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


  • Roger Kahn, A Flame of Pure Fire: Jack Dempsey And The Roaring ’20s, Chapters 1 & 12 (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 1999), Kindle Edition.


  • Clay Moyle, Sam Langford: Boxing’s Greatest Uncrowned Champion, Chapter 3 (Bennett & Hastings Publishing 2013), Kindle Edition.


  • David Remnick, King of the World: Muhammad Ali and the Rise of an American Hero, Chapter 11 (Vintage Books 1999), Kindle Edition.


  • Dave Newhouse, Before Boxing Lost Its Punch, Round 3 (ebooks 2012).


  • John E. Oden, Life In The Ring, 123 (Hatherleight Press 2009).


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


  • Mike Mosedale, The Ring Cycle, April 3, 2007. 


  • George Kimball and John Schulian, At the Fights: American Writers on Boxing (Library of America 2011), which includes the writing of Mark Kriegel, The Great (Almost) White Hope, and the writing of Gene Tunney, My Fights with Jack Dempsey, Kindle Edition.


  • Johnny Salak, Training a Full-Time Job, The Ring, August 1950, 46.


  • George Schire, Minnesota’s Golden Age of Wrestling, 12 (Minnesota Historical Society Press 2010). 


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


  • The Top 10 Boxing Personalities of the Previous 50 Years, The Ring, June 1972, at 32-41.


  • Jack Cavanaugh, Tunney: Boxing’s Brainiest Champ and His Upset of the Great Jack Dempsey, Chapter 23 (Ballantine Books 2007), Kindle Edition.


​Round 7: Boxing Record

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  • Jasper, O’Hara Battle, Duluth Herald, August 27, 1953, page 25.


  • O’Hara Beats Jasper in Duluth Test, St. Paul Pioneer Press, August 28, 1953. 


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

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  • Louis H. Gollop, Stepka, Lentsch, O’Hara Rated ‘Even Chance’ in Golden Gloves Finals, St. Paul Pioneer Press, February 13, 1944, page 1 (Sports).


  • 10,000 Expected for Golden Glove Windup, St. Paul Pioneer Press, February 14, 1944.


  • Bert Randolph Sugar, Boxing’s Greatest Fighters 10, 14, 17-18, 26, 29, 40, 43, 60, 76, 314, 316 (The Lyons Press 2006).


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


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


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


  • A.J. Libeling, The Sweet Science (The Viking Press 1956)(which includes the essay entitled The Neutral Corner Art Group).


  • Johnny Salak, Training a Full-Time Job, The Ring, August 1950, 46. 


  • George Kimball and John Schulian, At the Fights: American Writers on Boxing (Library of America 2011), which includes the writing of Gene Tunney: My Fights with Jack Dempsey, Kindle Edition.


​Round 8: Honors & Awards


  • Les Sellnow, They Came to Fight: The Story of Upper Midwest Golden Gloves, 60-61 (Bang Printing 2013).


  • Bert Randolph Sugar, Boxing’s Greatest Fighters, 7, 95 (The Lyons Press 2006). 


  • Clay Moyle, Billy Miske: The St. Paul Thunderbolt, 18, 54 (Win By KO Publications 2011).


  • 2007 Saint Paul Almanac at 259 (Arcata Press 2007), which includes the writing of Mark Connor: World Champion. 


  • First Letter of Paul to the Church at Corinth (chapter 9, verses 24-26), The New Jerusalem Bible, Doubleday Publications 1990.


  • 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 at 56 (The Ring Book Shop 1979). 


  • Mike Gibbons “The St. Paul Phantom,” The Minnesota Boxing Hall of Fame Inaugural Collector’s Issue 2010 Induction Banquet Program.


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


  • David Maraniss, When Pride Still Mattered: A Life of Vince Lombardi, Chapter 15 (Simon & Schuster 1999), Kindle Edition. 


  •  Vic Tedesco and Trudi Hahn, I Always Sang For My Father (Or Anyone Who Would Listen), 21-23, 28, and 171 (Syren Book Company 2006).


  • Bill Jaffa, Achievement Award goes to “Dedicated Boxing Man” – Jim O’Hara, Upper Midwest Golden Gloves Year Book, March 12, 1978.


  •  Man of the Year, 6 (No. 2) The Grapevine, 1-2 (April 1978) (a newsletter of the State of Minnesota Department of Commerce).


  • Jane Leavy, Sandy Koufax: A Lefty’s Legacy, Chapter 17 (HarperCollins e-books 2002),  Kindle Edition.


​​Round 9: Husband & Father

  • (T. L. O'Hara, Metaphors 64 (Lens & Pens Publications 2014).

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


  • George Kimball, Four Kings: Leonard, Hagler, Hearns, Duran, and the Last Great Era of Boxing, Chapter 7 (McBooks Press, Inc. 2008), Kindle Edition.


  • Bert Randolph Sugar, Boxing’s Greatest Fighters, 1, 86, 159, and 171 (The Lyons Press 2006).


  • A.J. Libeling, The Sweet Science (The Viking Press 1956)(which includes the essay entitled The Big Fellows: Boxing with the Naked Eye).


  • The Ring, June 1972, at 32-41.


  • George Schire, Minnesota’s Golden Age of Wrestling, 12-13 (Minnesota Historical Society Press 2010). 


​Round 10: Joe Louis


  • The Ring Boxing Encyclopedia and Record Book, 87 and 199-200 (The Ring Book Shop 1979).


  • Monte Cox, Understanding Boxing Skill, www.coxscorner.tripod.com/boxingskill.html.)


  • Randy Roberts, Joe Louis: Hard Times Man, Chapter 9 (Yale University Press 2010), Kindle Edition.


  • Bert Randolph Sugar, Boxing’s Greatest Fighters, 10, 14, and 26 (The Lyons Press 2006).


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


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


  • Bert Randolph Sugar and Teddy Atlas, The Ultimate Book of Boxing Lists, 161 (Running Press 2010).


  • A.J. Libeling, The Sweet Science (The Viking Press 1956)(which includes the essay entitled The Big Fellows: Boxing with the Naked Eye).


  • Mike Mosedale, The Ring Cycle, April 3, 2007. 


  • Jack Cavanaugh, Tunney: Boxing’s Brainiest Champ and His Upset of the Great Jack Dempsey, Chapter 8 (Ballantine Books 2007), 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.​


  • Patrick Myler, Joe Louis vs. Max Schmeling: Fight of the Century, Chapter 19 (Arcade Publishing 2012), Kindle Edition.


Round 11: Muhammad Ali


  • Bert Randolph Sugar, Boxing’s Greatest Fighters, 1,10, 20, 26, 29, 43, and 151-153 (The Lyons Press 2006).) 


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


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


  • Bert Randolph Sugar and Teddy Atlas, The Ultimate Book of Boxing Lists, 18-19 (Running Press 2010).


  • George Kimball and John Schulian, At the Fights: American Writers on Boxing (Library of America 2011), which includes the writing of Carlo Rotella: Champion at Twilight, Kindle Edition.


  • George Kimball, Four Kings: Leonard, Hagler, Hearns, Duran, and the Last Great Era of Boxing, Chapter 1 (McBooks Press, Inc. 2008), Kindle Edition.


  • Mike Hayes, “Watch Bobick Closely,” Says Angelo Dundee, The Ring, August 1974, 10, 32.


  • Thomas Hauser, Muhammad Ali: His Life and Times, Chapters 9, 10, and 17 (First eBook Publication 2012 (Initially Published in 1991), Kindle Edition.


  • David Remnick, King of the World: Muhammad Ali and the Rise of an American Hero, Chapter 14 and Epilogue (Vintage Books 1999), Kindle Edition.