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Joseph G. Donovan
JOSEPH G. DONOVAN was a sports editor and columnist for the Newark Morning Ledger in the 1930s. He was married to Frances Donovan and had a daughter, Patricia.
ABE J. GREENE (1899-1988) was a news...view moreJOSEPH G. DONOVAN was a sports editor and columnist for the Newark Morning Ledger in the 1930s. He was married to Frances Donovan and had a daughter, Patricia.
ABE J. GREENE (1899-1988) was a newspaperman and ring official who was credited with cleaning up boxing in New Jersey and turning the state into a major venue for the sport. As the longtime president and later commissioner of the old National Boxing Association and as a four-term New Jersey State Athletic Commissioner, he became one of the boxing’s best-liked and most respected officials. He championed the rights and well-being of boxers against their sometimes callous and unscrupulous managers even as he worked to make the sport profitable for the businessmen who ran it. He worked as an editor at The Paterson Evening News while serving in his boxing posts, having first come to prominence in 1933—then the city editor of The Evening News—when he served as chairman of a special labor-management commission that resolved a 14-week strike by 10,000 local silk workers. He was appointed as the state’s athletic commissioner in 1937 and elected as president of the National Boxing Association, which sanctioned bouts outside New York, in 1941. The next year he became the first man re-elected to the boxing association post, which he held until the late 1940’s, when he was named commissioner, a more powerful position that had been created especially for him. Greene passed away in Paterson, New Jersey on September 22, 1988, aged 89.view less
Books by Joseph G. Donovan
Galento the Great: The Authentic and Authorized Story of the Life and Ring Battles of Tony (Two-Ton) Galento, World’s Heavyweight Contender