Bert Sugar
Writer and Sports Historian
Bert Randolph Sugar is a writer sports historian who has written over 50 books, mostly about baseball and boxing. He was the owner and editor of of Boxing Illustrated magazine from 1969 until 1973, and the editor and publisher of The Ring magazine from 1979 to 1983. In 1998, he founded the magazine Bert Sugar's Fight Game. He has appeared as a commentator on HBO, ESPN and in numerous movies about boxing as himself. His most recent book, "Bert Sugar's Baseball Hall of
Fame: A Living History of America's Greatest Game," was published in 2009.
The longtime sportswriter talks about his personal style and who he’d want to step into the ring with.
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The greatest baseball player ever was Babe Ruth. Not only because every home run hit after him “has his DNA in it,” but also for his prowess as a pitcher. […]
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Steroids aren’t as big a problem as the press has made them out to be. “And if they are, we’ve got a pitcher on steroids throwing to a batter on […]
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Heavyweight champions today are so anonymous that you could put them all in a police lineup in gloves, robes, and trunks, holding their belts aloft, and no one would know […]
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“Sometimes the man’s IQ ain’t too high, but his boxing IQ is.” All fighters make mistakes in the ring—the great ones put that information into their mental computer and learn […]
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“Half of us will write on bathroom walls in lipstick if it pays—women’s rooms with two hands.”
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Today’s sportswriters don’t have the discipline that their predecessors did. “They’re writing quickly, so there’s no time for thought and cerebral thinking on an article. They’re just banging away.”
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A conversation with the writer and sports historian.
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