Historiador de deportes de combate y artista marcial
Hacía mucho frío la mañana del domingo, Diciembre 5, 1880, about 2 a.m., when St. Louis Police Officer Sheehan found the front door open to John R. Lionberger’s home. Debido al frío amargo, Sheehan temía que los ladrones hubieran entrado en la residencia.. Sheehan tocó el timbre repetidamente pero no pudo despertar a nadie dentro. Sheehan began rapping his night stick against the
Over the next three weeks, I will be releasing posts, which are excerpts from the book I’m currently working on and one from a previously published book. The following unedited story is from the book I’m working on which will be released in the Fall or early Winter 2017. William Rudolph proved elusive after his Independence Day escape from the
Sherlock Holmes desafía a la muerte (1943) se basa libremente en la aventura del ritual de Musgrave. El cuento fue publicado en The Strand Magazine en mayo 1893. Más tarde fue compilado en Las Memorias de Sherlock Holmes. En la historia, la mansión Musgrave celebró un secreto que incluso sus habitantes no sabían. This film follows the same plot line
Few events shocked St. Louis like the line of duty death of Lt. Sidney Sears in June 1924. For almost 30 año, Lt. Sears was considered the best pistol shot on the St. Departamento de Policía de Louis. In 1904, Sears was also National Pistol Champion of the United States. For someone to kill Lt. Sears in a shootout was considered impossible.
1802 N. Jefferson Avenue was a two-family flat built in 1890 and located in the St. Louis Place neighborhood. I originally wrote about the building in 2013 but it was demolished sometime before March 2015. The building is part of an area being developed for a government complex in St. Louis, so it was not able to be saved. Estas fotos son
I’ve been on an Alan Ladd kick lately. When I was still in college, I watched a number of Alan Ladd films one summer. I’ve been watching them over again the last few weeks on Amazon Prime. I’ll share some of these films over the next few months. The first film I watched was Thunder in the East (1951) starring
Dominant champions like William Muldoon often had to accept handicap conditions to get fans interested in watching them wrestle. Dado que los fanáticos solo consideraban a Clarence Whistler lo suficientemente hábil como para amenazar realmente su reinado, Muldoon would often generate interest by either performing feats of strength or taking on the challenge of handicap conditions. En mayo 5, 1885, Muldoon met Matsuda Sorokichi, quien
Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome (1947) es la última entrada en “B” Ciclo de cine. RKO Pictures tomó el relevo de la serie Republic Pictures, quien dio a conocer los seriales originales Dick Tracy a finales de 1930 y principios de 1940. RKO Pictures estrenó la película a los cines el septiembre 26, 1947. RKO trajo Boris Karloff en jugar Gruesome, one of Dick Tracy’s arch
When thinking about African American history month, I thought about the first great Black wrestler that I saw personally. When I started watching wrestling in St. Louis durante 1979, “Sailor” Art Thomas wrestled regularly on Wrestling at the Chase, our local weekly wrestling show. Wrestling at the Chase aired every Sunday at 11 a.m. on KPLR Channel 11. Although Thomas
When Frank Gotch retired as World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion after beating Georg Lurich in his last match, promoters scrambled to find a successor. Samuel Rachmann tried to put forth his own champion by hosting the 1915 International Wrestling Tournament in New York City. Rachmann wanted his challenger Aberg to win the tournament and be recognized by the public as the