Kampsportshistoriker og kampsportsutøver
April 13, 1936, Ed “Strangler” Lewis wrestled his final legitimate contest with Lee Wykoff
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Oktober 20, 1916, Ad Santel, a noted “hooker” or skilled submission wrestler, met Taro
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Tom Allen ble født i Birmingham, England, men kjempet noen av sine mest kjente kamper i Amerika. I 1867, Allen flyttet til St. Louis, den største byen vest for Mississippi. Allen dro aldri og ville bruke St. Louis som hjemmebase for å trene for premiekamper. Allen kjempet for det meste i premiekamper med bare knoke, slik amerikansk boksing ikke ville vært det
Eduard Mosblech is my maternal great-grandfather. Eduard was born in St. Louis, Missouri on October 24, 1884, to German immigrants Gustave Mosblech and Bertha Mosblech nee Monse. Ofte skrevet som Edward, men uttalt som å sette sammen hjelpemiddel og menighet, Eduard was as unique as his name. Jeg slet med å skrive mye om ham fordi historiene jeg hørte om ham
Når det gjelder maskin politikk og organisert kriminalitet, Kansas City har alltid outshone St. Louis. Kansas City’s Pendergast political machine helped land Harry S. Truman in the White House. Kansas City var også hjem til flere høyprofilerte gangland skytingen. St. Louis’ siste organisert kriminalitet leder ble arrestert for å spille kort. We did have a Democratic party political machine around
21-year old Charles Merrell had already served a term in the Missouri Penitentiary for stealing a car in Scotland County, when he got the idea to hold up the Morris Packing Company on Saturday, April 22, 1922. Merrell could not pull the job by himself, so he recruited another ex-convict, 33-year-old Hugh Pinkley. Merrell ble ansatt som mekaniker ved
Uker siden, Jeg lette etter en kopi av Ivanhoe av Sir Walter Scott fra min bestefars gamle bibliotek. Bestefar Gilbert P. Ellis hadde et bibliotek som han ga meg på begynnelsen av 1990-tallet. Disse bøkene og skrivebordet hans er skatter som vil bo hos meg til den dagen jeg dør. Som barn, Jeg pleide å sitte i hans
Before he was the “Sherlock Holmes of St. Louis”, St. Louis Chief of Detectives William Desmond was Detective “Billy” Desmond. One of the most talented detectives in St. Louis Politiet historie, Desmond met one of the most famous international criminals in history, Eddie Guerin, in the mid-1880s. Guerin robbed the American Express Office in Paris in the early 1900s. French
At our fantasy football draft this year, one of the other owners asked me who I thought was the best mixed martial artist of all time. I told him that based on skill, the greatest mixed martial artist of all time was Jon “Bones” Jones. However, Jones’ frequent problems outside of the Octagon would keep him from being considered the
William Muldoon, Verdens gresk-romersk bryting Champion og fysisk kultur talsmann, kom til Los Angeles på tirsdag, April 15, 1884 å møte den lokale wrestler Fred Bauer. Kampen ble spilt på den lokale Turnvereine Hall i Los Angeles. Muldoon was so confident of victory that he stipulated that he would throw Bauer ten times within an hour or he
November 30, 1871, a large crowd of men boarded ten rail cars on the New Orleans, Mobile and Texas railroad as it stopped on Canal Street in New Orleans, Louisiana. The train continued on to Montgomery Station near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, where the crowd left the rain and made their way into the woods. Such an odd procession
On the morning of Saturday, April 22, 1922, a green Paige automobile pulled up in front of the Morris Packing Company at 3000 S. Broadway. One man emerged, looked around and waived for his companion to exit the back seat. After hesitating for a few seconds, the other man exited as the automobile crawled down the busy street. The time