I was able to find out in which year he had passed away over at the google newspaper archives.
source:Boston Herald Nov.30.2001.
Obit:William Weinberg,"Big Bill"of Brookline,A former New England Heavyweight boxing champion,died Tuesday(Nov.27) at
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical center.He was 84."
http://www.boxrec.com/list_bouts.php?hu ... &cat=boxer
