Baer's reputation grew, and he landed a fight against Campbell at Recreation Park, at the time home to the San Francisco Seals baseball team. Campbell was an up-and-coming heavyweight who, though ...

Mr. Howard and screenwriters Cliff Hollingsworth and Akiva Goldsman provided one in the form of Braddock’s opponent in the big fight, Max Baer. Braddock’s family may recognize the hulking menace ...

Max Baer and Lou Nova. Exhibition filmed by Thomas Edison. Jack Dempsey vs. Georges Carpentier in 1921. John Mugabi and Marvin Hagler in 1986. Sept. 8, 1894 July 2, 1921 Aug. 22, 1933 Feb. 23 ...

This 1934 fight—briefly but vividly re-enacted in Cinderella Man —was a frightful affair in which Baer knocked down the clumsy giant 11 (or 12) times, despite being outweighed by 53 pounds.

Max Baer Jr. flings a pile of dog feces off his patio with a shovel and looks out across Lake Tahoe. The former actor on the 1960s television sitcom "The Beverly Hillbillies" says the view from the ...