Murderers' Row (boxing)

[Exhibitman]

Very, very tough stuff. Every time one of them make the HOF collectors have kittens trying to find something. Some of them have no career-contemporary ("CC") cards or only a card or two and they are obscure or rare.

Charley Burley: no known CC cards
Lloyd Marshall: 1940-70 Boxing News (UK)
Holman Williams: 1946-47 Propagandas Montiel (Cuba), plus a RPPC I have.
Herbert "Cocoa Kid" Lewis Hardwick: no known CC cards
Jack Chase: no known CC cards
Eddie Booker: no known CC cards
Aaron Wade: no known CC cards
Bert Lytell: no known CC cards

Absent cards, I go with publicity photos. Those do exist for the Cocoa Kid, Booker, Marshall and Burley. Perhaps for the others, I just haven't chased them.

[D. Bergin]

Lloyd Marshall

[TanksAndSpartans]

Wow! Really enjoyed looking at everything. I'm glad I asked. Thanks Dave and Adam.

Adam, was hoping you would join in - I just read your SCD HOF article, so I figured you would know.

[Exhibitman]

I do my best, John. The great thing about collecting boxing is that you can never know it all. Just pretend that you do

[D. Bergin]

Holman Williams

[TanksAndSpartans]

Thanks Dave! That looks like the Propagandas Montiel card of Holman Williams Adam mentions. And the photo with Joe Louis. The thread keeps getting better.

[TanksAndSpartans]

I have one more request for the experts that I think I will be able to tie in. Archie Moore talked up a lot of the boxers in this group via interview, etc.

What career-contemporary cards does Moore have? Google is showing a 1955 Topps hocus focus, but I thought there should be more since he was a champion.

Thanks!

[D. Bergin]

A couple of Archie Moore Cards issued in Sweden I believe, around 1960. They are not technically "boxing cards", I suppose, as they are from his appearance in "Huckleberry Finn", but they were issued during his career.