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Item
Title
D7338-1
Date(s)
- 1938-06-25 (Creation)
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Name of creator
(1919-1980)
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Portrait of Al Hostak, sensational Seattle middleweight boxer. Referred to as Al "Homicide" Hostak, bitter-fisted "killer" in Tacoma Times article of 10/14/1937. Hostak would go on to defeat Tacoma native and champion Freddie Steele later during the summer of 1938 to become the U.S. and National Boxing Association middleweight champion. (T. Times, 6/25/1938, p. 13).
Hostak, Al; Boxers (Sports)--Seattle--1930-1940;