Joe Palooka, Wilkes-Barre Boxing Legend with a National Punch

Posted by on Nov 25, 2013 in | Comments Off on Joe Palooka, Wilkes-Barre Boxing Legend with a National Punch In 1921, Hammond Fisher (1900-1955), a young staff artist for the Wilkes-Barre Record, was conversing with a local boxer, Joe Hardy, on Wilkes-Barre’s Public Square. The two were comparing their childhoods in the rough neighborhoods of the anthracite region community where they had learned to fight at an early age. Some, like Hardy, took their street skills to the local gymnasiums and...
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