Sport: Boxing Buff

» Bob Fitzsimmons' solid gold razor.

» The only complete set of Police Gazettes in existence.

» The locomotive bell used in the Corbett-Sullivan fight of 1892.

» 4,000,000 clippings, 40,000 pictures, 2,000 books on fights and fighters.

» Jake Kilrain's dumbbells.

Around such treasures in a fusty, bleak office in Manhattan's drafty, labyrinthine Madison Square Garden, Nat Fleischer has built his boxing museum (which he values at $350,000) and his reputation as boxing's No. 1 expert. This week the collection gets a new item: Terrible Terry, the Brooklyn Terror (Ring Book Shop; $1). The author: Nathaniel Stanley...

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