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PUBLISHER
Crowbar Press
PUBLICATION DATE
April 23, 2025
6x9 Perfect Bound
Pages: 170
Words: 77,801
Images: 139 b&w
Cover: Full color
ISBN: 978-1-940391-48-9
Item #: cbp70-edg
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"It's funny how your whole future can be determined by the most inconsequential little things." - Ed Don George
As a boy growing up in a small farming town in Western New York, Edward George dreamed of making his fortune and seeing the world. Wrestling made those dreams come true.
A collegiate champion who attended the University of Michigan and St. Bonaventure University, George represented the United States in the 1928 Olympic Games. After graduation, he decided to try his hand at professional wrestling, where showmanship and spectacle were just as important as grappling know-how. By the time he was 25 years old, he was the world heavyweight champion.
Ed Don George held the world title on three occasions during the 1930s, becoming one of wrestling's top stars and drawing more than 20,000 fans for clashes against legends like Jim Londos and Danno O'Mahoney. He hobnobbed with celebrities, appeared in a Hollywood motion picture, traveled the world, and established himself as one of the country's biggest sports stars during The Great Depression.
This book follows Ed Don George throughout his incredible wrestling career, into his days as a hand-to-hand combat Naval combat instructor during World War II, his time as a successful wrestling promoter, and beyond. Through newspaper accounts and interviews with his family, this book reintroduces the world to one of the most successful and respected wrestlers of the early 20th century . Ed Don George.
Acknowledgements and author's note
1 Pandemonium
2 "Uncle Edward"
3 An Unplanned Course
4 The 1928 Olympic Games
5 Adventures in Europe
6 "The Money is in Going Pro"
7 The "Slam-Bang" World of Professional Wrestling
8 The Road to the World Title
9 The Strangler and the "Double-Cross" |
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10 Two-Time World Champion
11 Crowds, Controversies, and "The Golden Greek"
12 Danno Takes the Title
13 A Grizzled Veteran
14 Politics and Service
15 Ed Don, Wrestling Promoter
16 Promoting in Miami and Cuba
17 "Wrestlers End Up on Crutches"
18 The Legacy of Ed Don George
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1928 Summer Olympics
1929 Big Ten Championship
1932 Olympic Games
1948 Olympic Games
1948 U.S. Olympic team
1956 Olympic Games
1960 Olympic Games
Albright, Jack
Arena, The
Baba, Ali
Baer, Max
Balboa, Rocky
Barend, Johnny
Bell, Kay
Beyer, Dick
Bison Stadium (Buffalo NY)
Blears, Lord James
Boston (MA) Garden
Boston (MA) Globe
Boston (MA) Record
Bowser, Paul
Braddock, James J.
Braves Field
Brown, Joe E.
Browning, Jim
Buffalo (NY) Athletic Club
Buffalo (NY) News
Buffalo (NY) Times
Canisius High School (Buffalo)
Capitol Wrestling Corporation
Carnear, Primo
Carone, Fred
Castro, Fidel
Chaney, Lon
Chick, Dude
Corcoran, Jack
Cornell University
Cox, Joe
Critzer, Cy
Cromwell, Dean
Cummiskey, Joe
Curley, Jack
Curtis, Don
Daro, Lou
Davis, Arthur
Daviscourt, Dick
Deglane, Henry
Dellamano, Frank
Demetroff, Boris
Dempsey, Jack
Destroyer, The
Detroit News
Dewey, Gov. Thomas
Dexter Park Amphitheater
Didrikson, Ella (Babe)
Donnell, Charlie
Doyle, Jack
Drago, Ivan
Dusek, Ernie
Dusek, Rudy
Ely, Joseph B.
European heavyweight title
Evans, Don
Fall Guys: The Barnums of Bounce
Flanders, Roger
Fleischer, Nat
French Professional Wrestling Federation
From Milo to Londos
Furst, Hans
Ganson, Jack |
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Gardner, Rulon
George, Dave
George, Don
George, Ed Don
George, Gorgeous
George, James (Jim)
George, Phil
George, Sarah
George, Ted
Ginsberg, Benny
Gold Dust Trio
Gotch, Frank
Great Lakes Athletic Club
Griffin, Marcus
Hackenschmidt, George
Hagney, Frank
Hammonds, Ralph
Hart, Stu
Hatton, Nathan
Hebert, Bertrand
Herman, Jack
Hornbaker, Tim
Jenkins, Tom
Johnson, Steve
Jones, Robert L.
Karasick, Al
Karelin, Aleksandr
Keen, Cliff
Koloff, Dan
Kwariani, Kola
Lansky, Meyer
Laprade, Pat
LeBow, Guy
Lewis, Ed (Strangler)
Londos, Jim
Los Angeles Evening Express
Ludlow, Ivan
Lutze, Nick
Macaluso, Len
MacLean, Alex
Madison Square Gaden
Malcewicz, Joe
Malone, Karl D.
Manhattan Booking Agency
Mansfield, Frederick
Marshall, Everette
Martinez, Pedro
Mazurki, Iron Mike
McCoy, Bibber
McCready, Earl (The Moose)
McGill, Pat
McMahon, Vincent J.
McMahon, Vincent K.
Memorial Auditorium (Buffalo NY)
Mercier, Al
Meske, Ed
Miller, Rudy
Monahan, Jerry
Mondt, Joe (Toots)
Montreal Gazette
Moran, Frederick (Freddy)
Muchnick, Sam
Munn, Glenn
Munn, Wayne (Big)
Murphy, Tara
Murray, Charley
Nagurski, Bronko
National Boxing Association
National Wrestling Alliance
National Wrestling Association
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New York State Athletic Commission
North Java, New York
NWA British Empire title
O'Donnell, Sandy
O'Hara, Pat
Oliver, Greg
Olympic Auditorium (LA)
O'Mahony (O'Mahoney), Danno
O'Toole, Tommy
Packs, Tom
Paddock, Charley
Paoli, Raoul
Parade of Champions
Parker, Dan
Patterson, Jake
Pereira, Al
Pinneo, George
Pojello, Karl
Randolph, Sallie
Rasputin, Ivan
Rice, Grantland
Richthoff, Johan
Ring Magazine
Ritchie, Al
Robert, Yvon
Rocca, Antonino
Romano, Mike
Roosevelt, Teddy
Runyan, Damon
S.S. President Roosevelt
Sandow, Billy
Sauer, Russell D.
Saxon, Frank
Servatius, Tommy
Sexton, Frank
Sharkey, Jack
Sharpe, Ed
Shikat, Dick
Shorsky, Sam
Siki, Regis
Singer, Jack
Sit Tight
Sonnenberg, Gus
St. Bonaventure University
Stasiak, Stanley
Stecher, Joe
Stedler, Bob
Steinborn, Milo
Strack, Charlie
Szabo, Sandor
Teal, Scott
Thesz, Lou
Tonneman, Theodore (Ted)
University of Michigan
Upstate Athletic Club
Von Schacht, Fred
Wagner, Strangler Bob
Watson, Billy
Weismuller, Johnny
Wemli, Henri
Wilkie, Bob
World Wrestling Federation
Wrigley Field (Los Angeles)
Yohe, Steve
Zaharias, George
Zarynoff, Count (George)
Zbyszko, Stanislaus
Zimmerman, George J. |
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