Jimmy “Baby Face” McLarnin, a two-time welterweight boxing champion in an era when each weight division had only one titleholder, has died. He was 96. McLarnin died Oct. 28 at a nursing home ...

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 McLarnin, the adopted Emerald of New York City, was on top of the world. It was the spring of 1933 and he would cross swords with only one man over the next two years in a pulsating three ...

On May 28, 1934, in front of 60,000 at the Madison Square Bowl in Long Island City, Ross’ speed proved a perfect foil for McLarnin’s power. Jimmy knocked Ross down in the ninth round, but Ross ...

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 year, ...

In Madison Square Garden, Dynamite Jimmy McLarnin lashed his famous right, his jolting left against the long scarred face of Billy Petrolle, called by admirers “The Fargo Express” because he ...

VICTORIA, British Columbia — Two-time welterweight champion Jimmy McLarnin has died. He was 96. McLarnin, a member of Canada's Sports Hall of Fame and the International Boxing Hall of Fame, died ...

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 ...