A BRIEF SURVEY OF GREEK AMATEUR ATHLETICS IN NEW YORK CITY By Steve Frangos Published in The National Herald, June 10, 2006   ------------------------------ I am excited to announce that  The National Herald  has given Hellenic Genealogy Geek the right to reprint articles that may be of interest to our group.  ------------------------------ It must have been two years ago or  so. I was sorting through the sports documentation at Notre Dame when George Rugg, the special archivist in charge of the collection, came into the research area with a xerox in his hand. The always generous Mr. Rugg handed me the “Greek” entry from the “Encyclopedia of Ethnicity and Sports in the United States (George B. Kirsch et. al., editors, Greenwood Press, Westport, Connecticut: 2000: 197-200).” I found the opening paragraphs by Nicholas Notaridis and Nick Koliarakis astounding: “The earliest record of organized Greek American ethnic sport...

GEORGE BROWN, THEODORE ANTON, AND OTHER EARLY GREEK-AMERICAN BOXERS Published in The National Herald, March 12-18, 2016 Issue Authored by Steve Frangos TNH Staff Writer ------------------------------ We are excited to announce that  The National Herald  has given Hellenic Genealogy Geek the right to reprint articles that may be of interest to our group.  ------------------------------ CHICAGO - Incredibly, the first generation of professional Greek boxers is, today, only known to historians and avid connoisseurs of the sport.  Far from mere punch-drunks or has-been palookas professional Greek boxers such as George "Knock Out' Brown and Theodore "The Greek" Anton were long-time champions and holders of professional titles recognized across the nation.  It is an effortless matter to learn of the careers of such men as Brown and Anton by no more than scanning the sports pages of the early 1900s. What in fact is so striking ...