{"id":1734,"date":"2020-04-10T17:05:27","date_gmt":"2020-04-10T21:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sabafamily.net\/weblog\/?p=1734"},"modified":"2020-04-10T17:05:29","modified_gmt":"2020-04-10T21:05:29","slug":"mystery-mal-speech-do-you-know-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sabafamily.net\/weblog\/2020\/04\/mystery-mal-speech-do-you-know-him\/","title":{"rendered":"Mystery Mal Speech, Do You Know Him?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I found this fascinating letter recounting the an adventure with someone called Mal.  I have verified a few facts in this account.  <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Stillman's Gym (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lou_Stillman\" target=\"_blank\">Stillman&#8217;s Gym<\/a> is famous and real!  As is Whittie Bramstine, who is actually <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Whitey Bimstein (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Whitey_Bimstein\" target=\"_blank\">Whitey Bimstein<\/a> a famous Boxing Trainer.  The one I am not sure about is Max Burger, &#8220;the Middleweight Champ of the World&#8221;.  Given the tendencies of this period to use nicknames my best guess is that Max Burger is actually <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Freddie Steele (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Freddie_Steele\" target=\"_blank\">Freddie Steele<\/a>, who was born <strong>Frederick Earle Burgett<\/strong>.  He was a champ, so Max, and Burgett was either misspelled or Burger was a nickname.<br><br>Given that this sounds like a true account.  Not sure if it was Alfred or Eddie who wrote this, my guess is it was Eddie.<br><br>If anyone know please post a comment or get in touch!  Here is the written speech:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sabafamily.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/20200410113144_001.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"778\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/sabafamily.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/20200410113144_001-778x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1735\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sabafamily.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/20200410113144_001-778x1024.png 778w, https:\/\/sabafamily.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/20200410113144_001-228x300.png 228w, https:\/\/sabafamily.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/20200410113144_001-768x1010.png 768w, https:\/\/sabafamily.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/20200410113144_001.png 887w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 778px) 100vw, 778px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sabafamily.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/20200410113144_002.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"878\" height=\"699\" src=\"https:\/\/sabafamily.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/20200410113144_002.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1736\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sabafamily.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/20200410113144_002.png 878w, https:\/\/sabafamily.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/20200410113144_002-300x239.png 300w, https:\/\/sabafamily.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/20200410113144_002-768x611.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 878px) 100vw, 878px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found this fascinating letter recounting the an adventure with someone called Mal. I have verified a few facts in this account. Stillman&#8217;s Gym is famous and real! As is Whittie Bramstine, who is actually Whitey Bimstein a famous Boxing Trainer. The one I am not sure about is Max Burger, &#8220;the Middleweight Champ of &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/sabafamily.net\/weblog\/2020\/04\/mystery-mal-speech-do-you-know-him\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[153,7,157,154,156],"class_list":["post-1734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-boxing","tag-eddie","tag-freddie-steele","tag-middleweight-champion","tag-whitey-bimstein"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sabafamily.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sabafamily.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sabafamily.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sabafamily.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sabafamily.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1734"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sabafamily.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1737,"href":"https:\/\/sabafamily.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1734\/revisions\/1737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sabafamily.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sabafamily.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sabafamily.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}