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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.

How could I have forgotten to say this. Pete Sanstol belongs in the Hall of Fame.

I believe Shatner may have been present at the fight...I have seen him use some of Sanstol's moves when fighting various alien opponents throughout the galaxy. This may well have been the early influence that turned the trick in some challenging situations.

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.

Well that is great to hear Ric. Will it be available in English at any time?