"Two Ton" Tony Galento
Heavyweight Contender
Active 1928-1944

   

DOMINICK ANTHONY GALENTO
b. March 12, 1910
d. July 22, 1979

 

WON
80

LOST
26

DRAWS
5

KO'S
57
 

A beautiful signed vintage press photograph of heavyweight contender Tony Galento... The inscription is to Oscar Fraley who co-wrote The Untouchables with Eliot Ness, the man who brought down Al Capone... A classic image perfectly signed in fountain pen ink!!

HANDY & BOESSER PHOTOGRAPH

measures: 8 x 10"
condition: some minor ceasing to extreme upper right portion
of photograph, otherwise fine

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  Galento, who claimed to be 5'9" tall, liked to weigh in at about 235 lbs. for his matches. He achieved this level of fitness by eating whatever, whenever he wanted. A typical meal for Galento consisted of six chickens, a side of spaghetti, all washed down with a half gallon of red wine, or beer, or both at one sitting. When he did go to training camp, he foiled his trainers attempts to modify his diet and terrorized his sparring partners by eating their meals in addition to his.

He was reputed to train on beer, and allegedly ate 52 hot dogs on a bet before facing heavyweight Arthur DeKuh. Galento was supposedly so bloated before the fight that the waist line of his trunks had to be slit for him to fit into them. Galento claimed that he was sluggish from the effects of eating all those hot dogs, and that he could not move for three rounds. Nevertheless, Galento knocked out the 6'3"  DeKuh with one punch, a left hook, in the fourth round.

  
 


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  Oscar Fraley (August 2, 1914 — January 6, 1994) was the co-author, with Eliot Ness, of the famous American memoir The Untouchables. Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Fraley grew up across the Delaware River in Woodbury, New Jersey.

He worked for United Press International as a sports reporter from 1940-1965 but still managed to write during his free time. Over the course of his lifetime, Fraley penned 31 books, including Hoffa, The Real Story (Stein and Day, 1975). In 1956 he was introduced to Ness while working as a reporter for U.P.I. It was this encounter that served as the inspiration for The Untouchables. By 1957, Fraley had written most of the proofs for the manuscript of the book. Ness read these proofs shortly before his own death that same year.

The Untouchables would go on to sell 1.5 million copies and serve as the basis for the television series and movie of the same name.

Oscar Fraley died on Thursday, January 6, 1994 in Fort Lauderdale’s in Broward General Hospital. The cause was heart failure after surgery for a strangulated hernia.		  
 


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