1) Description of their Aug. 25, 1931 title bout:
http://www.boxrec.com/media/index.php/P ... _Sanstol_I
2) The "back story" behind this title bout:
http://www.geocities.com/boxofdaylight/Brown.htm
3) BTW: Perhaps being pushed in his little stroller along St. Catherine Street, or elsewhere in Montreal that day, was the five-month-old James T. Kirk of the USS Enterprise....er, I mean, William Shatner--who had been born in Montreal.
Panama Al Brown vs. Pete Sanstol: 75 Years Later
http://www.geocities.com/boxofdaylight/ ... Cover4.jpg
I just got some great news today, on the actual 75th anniversary of Brown-Sanstol I. Today I learned that Pete's autobiography, written in the late 1950s, is about to be published (or has been recently published). It has never been published before, although I think excerpts might have made their way into Norway's version of LIFE magazine circa 1959.
I have the original manuscript. It is all in Norwegian, not English, and about 250 type-written pages. I sent a photocopy to folks in Lund, Norway, late last year. I am not clear whether a local book club is publishing it, or if some bigger Norwegian publisher is handling it. I think the city of Lund historical society is probably the publisher. This is part of the e-mail message I got:
"It is the historyclub that has made the arrangement, and Torbjørn Kjørmo has organized the book. BUT the author IS PETE SANSTOL!! I can also tell you that it has been a lot of interest of the book. My husband, Karl and Torbjørn Kjørmo have been in the radiostudio and TV, and three newspapers have written about the book."
I attach an image of the book cover.
I just got some great news today, on the actual 75th anniversary of Brown-Sanstol I. Today I learned that Pete's autobiography, written in the late 1950s, is about to be published (or has been recently published). It has never been published before, although I think excerpts might have made their way into Norway's version of LIFE magazine circa 1959.
I have the original manuscript. It is all in Norwegian, not English, and about 250 type-written pages. I sent a photocopy to folks in Lund, Norway, late last year. I am not clear whether a local book club is publishing it, or if some bigger Norwegian publisher is handling it. I think the city of Lund historical society is probably the publisher. This is part of the e-mail message I got:
"It is the historyclub that has made the arrangement, and Torbjørn Kjørmo has organized the book. BUT the author IS PETE SANSTOL!! I can also tell you that it has been a lot of interest of the book. My husband, Karl and Torbjørn Kjørmo have been in the radiostudio and TV, and three newspapers have written about the book."
I attach an image of the book cover.