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	'''Frankie Ryan''' was a welterweight who peaked in the 1920s and reportedly beat some highly-regarded fighters, including [[Jimmy Duffy]] and [[Phil 'KO'Kaplan]]. After retiring from boxing, he was working for the ''New York Herald'' newspaper when a ream of paper fell on him and crushed his chest. A subsequent stroke left him bedridden for life. "I visited my uncle as often as I could," his nephew Craig Hamilton recalled. "He told me of the great days of boxing and how he rode the rails from town to town. He claimed to have met [[Jack Dempsey]] when Dempsey was doing the same thing."		'''Frankie Ryan''' was a welterweight who peaked in the 1920s and reportedly beat some highly-regarded fighters, including [[Jimmy Duffy]] and [[Phil 'KO' Kaplan]]. After retiring from boxing, he was working for the ''New York Herald'' newspaper when a ream of paper fell on him and crushed his chest. A subsequent stroke left him bedridden for life. "I visited my uncle as often as I could," his nephew Craig Hamilton recalled. "He told me of the great days of boxing and how he rode the rails from town to town. He claimed to have met [[Jack Dempsey]] when Dempsey was doing the same thing."

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	'''Frankie Ryan''' was a welterweight who peaked in the 1920s and reportedly beat some highly-regarded fighters, including [[Jimmy Duffy]] and [[~~KO Phil Kaplan\|~~Phil "KO" Kaplan]]. After retiring from boxing, he was working for the ''New York Herald'' newspaper when a ream of paper fell on him and crushed his chest. A subsequent stroke left him bedridden for life. "I visited my uncle as often as I could," his nephew Craig Hamilton recalled. "He told me of the great days of boxing and how he rode the rails from town to town. He claimed to have met [[Jack Dempsey]] when Dempsey was doing the same thing."		'''Frankie Ryan''' was a welterweight who peaked in the 1920s and reportedly beat some highly-regarded fighters, including [[Jimmy Duffy]] and [[Phil 'KO'Kaplan]]. After retiring from boxing, he was working for the ''New York Herald'' newspaper when a ream of paper fell on him and crushed his chest. A subsequent stroke left him bedridden for life. "I visited my uncle as often as I could," his nephew Craig Hamilton recalled. "He told me of the great days of boxing and how he rode the rails from town to town. He claimed to have met [[Jack Dempsey]] when Dempsey was doing the same thing."

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'''Frankie Ryan''' was a welterweight who peaked in the 1920s and reportedly beat some highly-regarded fighters, including [[Jimmy Duffy]] and [[KO Phil Kaplan|Phil "KO" Kaplan]]. After retiring from boxing, he was working for the ''New York Herald'' newspaper when a ream of paper fell on him and crushed his chest. A subsequent stroke left him bedridden for life. "I visited my uncle as often as I could," his nephew Craig Hamilton recalled. "He told me of the great days of boxing and how he rode the rails from town to town. He claimed to have met [[Jack Dempsey]] when Dempsey was doing the same thing."