Max Baer And The Star Of David (2016) - Plot & Excerpts
(5:1) I was with Max Baer when he fought and defeated Frankie Campbell and delivered blows that, according to the physician’s postmortem, set loose Frankie Campbell’s brain from its skull and was the cause of Frankie Campbell’s death. I was with him when he fought and defeated Ernie Schaaf in a bout that left Schaaf unconscious; I was with him when he received the news that Schaaf had died during a bout with Primo Carnera; and I was with him when sportswriters, the famed Jimmy Cannon and Grantland Rice among them, reported what many of us, including Max, believed to be true: that Schaaf’s death was due to damage previously inflicted by Max. These incidents, which earned Max the reputation of “killer,” affected him profoundly—broke his heart, in truth—for there never was, in my experience, a kinder, more gentle man, or one who, when not grieving for men he had hurt (myself included), gloried in life as fully and with as much exuberant love as did Max Baer. I was with Max when he made the decision, before his bout against Hitler’s boxer, Max Schmeling, whom he crushed utterly, to adorn his boxing trunks with the Star of David, an emblem he would wear proudly for the remainder of his boxing career, and I was with him when he defeated the Argentinian behemoth, Primo Carnera, for the heavyweight championship of the world.
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