GIL CLANCY - AUTOGRAPHED INSCRIBED PHOTOGRAPH - HFSID 276206

GIL CLANCY
The legendary boxing manager and trainer poses with his first world champion.
Photograph inscribed and signed: "Good luck John/Gil Clancy". B/w, 8½x11 overall, image 7½x6 (one surface). Names of subjects in the photograph (Gil Clancy, Emile Griffith and Howie Albert, who helped Clancy in the training and managing of Griffith) written in ink (unknown hand) beneath image. Gil Clancy, one of boxing's greatest managers and trainers, had his first world champion with Emile Griffith, who captured the welterweight and middle weight crowns. Clancy stayed with Griffith over his entire 20-year career (and he played himself in the 2005 film, The Emile Griffith Story), but he also worked with other fighters, including Rodrigo Valdes and Juan LaPorte, whom he personally tutored, as well as Muhammad Ali, Joe Frazier, George Foreman, Ken Buchanan, Jerry Quarry and Gerry Cooney. Clancy came out of retirement in the 1990s to work with Oscar De La Hoya. Named matchmaker for Madison Square Garden Boxing in 1978, he held that position for three years before turning to broadcasting and becoming one of boxing's premiere television analysts in the 1980s and 1990s. Named Manager of the Year by the Boxing Writers Association of America in 1967 and 1973, Clancy has also been honored with the Sam Taub Award for Excellence in Broadcasting Journalism and he is enshrined in the International Boxing Hall of Fame. Slightly creased at blank margins, else fine condition.