Adventures in Autographs "The Pittsburgh Kid" BILLY CONN Part II of II

[JimStinson]

Originally Posted by 1880nonsports

an important memory as I forget what I did an hour ago. Well executed and thoughtfully rendered - I got an exellent sense of the moment.......

My memory is really not that good , I give credit to the late , great Larry Ritter "The Glory of Their Times" , who I would speak with in the days when I was doing the signings and he told me "Take notes" so usually afterwards I'd write down some things that happened. But I get what he was saying in that from a brief outline in looking back I remember other things I'd forgotten that today from a story telling point of view are important.
Sadly the mentality at the time is that "Those guys are always going to be around"
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[Bored5000]

Thanks for posting the two Billy Conn threads, Mr. Stinson. Each thread made for great reading. I have always been interested in guys like Conn and Luis Angel Firpo who gave an all-time great champion hell before losing in the end.

In recent years, the story of Billy Conn and his near miss against Louis seems to have experienced renewed interest. Within the last 10 years, a pair of new Billy Conn books have been released and enjoy excellent customer reviews on Amazon.

[Exhibitman]

Great story; keep them coming. Boxers are the best autograph guests I've ever seen.

A few Conn items:

late 1930s Adam Hats premium:



PC:



Poster promoting the second Louis fight:



Envelope from his 2nd Louis fight:

[JimStinson]

Adam , Thanks for the nice words and thanks for posting the Billy Conn images. Great , Great stuff
This morning I received an e-mail from Billy Conn's son to say that he saw it online and enjoyed the story too. Made my day !!!!!

He Also mentioned his mom is still going strong which was great news.
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[Lordstan]

Originally Posted by JimStinson

My memory is really not that good , I give credit to the late , great Larry Ritter "The Glory of Their Times" , who I would speak with in the days when I was doing the signings and he told me "Take notes" so usually afterwards I'd write down some things that happened. But I get what he was saying in that from a brief outline in looking back I remember other things I'd forgotten that today from a story telling point of view are important.
Sadly the mentality at the time is that "Those guys are always going to be around"
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Jim,
Did you tape some of these encounters like Ritter did for his book.
It would be great to hear them tell the stories. There is something special about hearing these guys tell their own stories. The Glory of Their Times audiobook is one of the best experiences ever.

Mark

[JimStinson]

Originally Posted by Lordstan

Jim,
Did you tape some of these encounters like Ritter did for his book.
It would be great to hear them tell the stories. There is something special about hearing these guys tell their own stories. The Glory of Their Times audiobook is one of the best experiences ever.

Mark

I would have felt uncomfortable with a tape recorder, I did do a series of interviews on tape with "Old Bones" Joe Brown for a story I did to try and get him in the Hall of Fame before he died (He got inducted and passed away shortly after) , and Willie Pastrano just to name a couple but that was only because I got to know them pretty well. Pastrano who won the title from Harold Johnson and lost it to Jose Torres was one of the funniest story tellers ever but most of the things he talked about were probably not well suited to a public forum , and were to put it nicely better suited to an "adult audience"...

besides the recordings were on cassettes , do they even MAKE cassette players anymore ????
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[Exhibitman]

There are converters that allow you to digitize the content of cassettes. Same is true for LPs. I have one of those for transferring hard to find old records onto my ipod.

[Mr. Zipper]

Originally Posted by Exhibitman

There are converters that allow you to digitize the content of cassettes. Same is true for LPs. I have one of those for transferring hard to find old records onto my ipod.

I digitized all my cassette tapes and never thought twice about it.

I sold many of my LPs at a garage sale for $1 each a few years ago and still regret it. I like my iPod, but nothing is quite as aesthetically pleasing as watching a vinyl disc spin, hypnotized by the little red light on the side of the turntable.

[earlywynnfan]

Great stories!!

I would like to see the photo of the couple from 1941, if you have it handy.

Ken