Pete Muldoon

Name: Pete Muldoon
Birth Name: Linton Muldoon Treacy
Hometown: Ballard, Washington, USA
Birthplace: Ontario, Canada
Died: 1929-03-13 (Age:41)
Pro Boxer: Record

Manager: C. B. Fitzgerald

Pete Muldoon started as an amateur boxer for the Washington Athletic Club in Seattle. By February 1910, he was the holder of the PNA and AAU 158-pound titles. He would turn pro shortly thereafter. [1] (When he participated in the Pacific amateur tournament at Sacramento in November 1910, his amateur status was disputed by Olympic officials and he was "disbarred." [2])

Muldoon later was a Canadian ice hockey pioneer in the western United States, particularly known for bringing a Stanley Cup championship to Seattle, Washington. Mossback's Northwest: [3]

He is also known for reportedly putting a curse on the Chicago Black Hawks, as well as team owner Major Frederic McLaughlin, after Muldoon was fired at the end of the 1926-27 season. However, it has been alleged that a Toronto sportswriter had come up with the "curse" due to a bout of writer's block in 1943. Muldoon had been the Black Hawks' first head coach.