SIXTEEN years ago, an Iowa attorney named Adam Pollack founded Win By KO Publications. Pollack has worked as a trainer, referee, and ring judge. But his greatest contribution to boxing lies in a series of biographies he has written about boxing’s early gloved heavyweight champions.
“Publishers wanted to edit my books down and wouldn’t use the photos I wanted to use,” Pollack recalls. “I wanted total control over my books and how what I wrote was published, so I decided to do it myself. Then other writers started coming to me, asking if I’d publish their books.”
Win By KO has published 25 books to date; 11 by Pollack and 14 by other authors. All but one (a novel by VADA president Margaret Goodman) are non-fiction. by Kenneth Bridgham is its latest offering. Armstrong is credited with a 1956 autobiography titled . Other than that, is the first book-length work about a
