Description Jack Mc Clelland: The Pride of Pittsburg is the first and only biography of Jack Mc Clelland, the Smokey City\'s first boxing star.
Ciaramella is a history teacher, a five-time published author, and the great-great grandson of Jack Mc Clelland..
Vincent T.
Filled with epic battles, shootouts with the police, race riots, broken families, and broken bones, Jack Mc Clelland: The Pride of Pittsburg will make you question why you have never heard of him before.
Ciaramella brings Jack Mc Clelland back into the limelight for one last time.
Meticulously researched, using primary sources and interviews with the last surviving people that knew him, Vincent T.
That is, until now.
A man credited with bringing modern boxing to Pittsburgh, his name and story have vanished from the pages of history.
Legal troubles put Jack\'s career on hiatus, until he made a comeback in 1910.
At the 1904 Saint Louis World\'s Fair, Mc Clelland fought and defeated world featherweight champion Abe Attell, only to have the championship ripped from his hands on a technicality.
He took on all-comers, and never drew the color line.
From 1895 to 1905, Mc Clelland was one of the nation\'s most popular and talked-about boxers, appearing in the sports sections of newspapers across the country.
Description Jack Mc Clelland: The Pride of Pittsburg is the first and only biography of Jack Mc Clelland, the Smokey City\'s first boxing star
