MAX SCHMELING - AUTOGRAPHED SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH - HFSID 5605
Price: $200.00
MAX SCHMELING
Black and white publicity photograph of Max Schmeling practicing throwing
punches.
Photograph signed: "Max Schmeling". B/w, 8x10. Max Schmeling
(1905-2005) became World Heavyweight Champion in 1930, when he defeated Jack
Sharkey for the title vacated by Gene Tunney in 1928. In 1932, Sharkey won the
title in a 15-round decision over Schmeling. Schmeling scored a twelfth round
knockout of the previously undefeated Joe Louis in 1936. In a closely followed
rematch at Yankee Stadium in 1938, Louis knocked out Schmeling in the first
round. Despite Nazi efforts to promote him as a symbol of Aryan supremacy,
Schmeling refused Hitler's personal request to join the Nazi party and
secretly protected German Jews at great risk to himself. A Coca Cola
executive since World War II, Schmeling became a close friend of Joe Louis
and served as a pallbearer at Louis' funeral (1981). Lightly creased at left
corners. Fine condition.
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