Sometimes a person lives too long to be remembered. Jimmy McLarnin, one of the great little men in boxing, was one of those people. He died Oct. 28 in Richland, Wash. He was 96. This man of boxing ...

Jimmy “Babyface” McLarnin, who died October 28 at age 96 in Richland, Wash., was twice world welterweight boxing champion before retiring to enjoy financial security all too unusual among former ...

He looked like an angel and punched like a mule: the Northwest's JimmyMcLarnin fought his way through boxing's golden age and has lived to tell all. Just minutes from where the 9,300-year-old ...

He was groggy and he lost the round. It was the last one he lost." “Baby Face” Jimmy McLarnin, the former welterweight world champion would come into the ring six and a half pounds heavier and ...

Bearing the misleadingly pacific nickname of "Baby Face", Jimmy McLarnin was one of the most accomplished boxers of the 1920s and 1930s. Twice world welterweight champion, in the course of his ...

In Madison Square Garden’s outdoor bowl Welterweight Jimmy McLarnin entered the ring first, laced up his gloves. Small Barney Ross, who won the lightweight championship from Tony Canzoneri last ...

I wanted to write this one for an occasional and esteemed friend out of Riverside, California. Those of you who know your boxing characters will know the same of Bill O’Neill, who has been ...

Their stories, and the victories they pulled off, are remarkable. Jimmy McLarnin, also known as the Belfast Spider, was a dynamite puncher and one of the greatest weight climbers of all-time ...

The object of their worship was boxer Jimmy McLarnin, a smooth-cheeked Vancouver lad of Irish ancestry whose heroism in the ring made them forget the ordinariness of everyday life. Some called him ...

ALMOST 80 years ago, Jimmy McLarnin thrilled 18,000 at Madison Square Garden on his New York debut when he knocked out Sid Terris a minute and 47 seconds after the first bell had rung in their ...