Sports
Rocky Marciano: The Rock of His Times, Russell Sullivan, University of Illinois Press: 372 pp., $34.95
Dec. 15, 2002
What: “Rocky Marciano” Where: Showtime, Saturday, 8 p.m.
May 12, 1999
Every now and then, Marvelous Marvin Hagler, the middleweight champ, asks his manager about Rocky Marciano.
Sept. 22, 1985
A look at the biggest moments in sports history to occur on April 27. Undefeated boxer Rocky Marciano retired on this day in 1956.
April 27, 2020
“He was a fighter, that’s what he was,” Archie Moore says of Rocky Marciano, the only heavyweight champion to retire unbeaten.
Sept. 15, 1985
Baseball, football, basketball and even golf (go figure) are far more popular.
May 14, 1999
Thirty years ago tonight, under threatening skies in New York’s Yankee Stadium, Rocky Marciano pounded his way to the final victory of a perfect career in professional boxing.
Sept. 21, 1985
In your list of athletes killed in air crashes [Jan. 29], you left out one of the greatest athletes of all times: Rocky Marciano, who was killed on Aug. 31, 1969, in a small-plane crash near Des Moines.
Feb. 3, 2001
Pasqualena Marchegiano, 83, mother of the late world heavyweight boxing champion Rocky Marciano, died at Stoughton, Mass., after a long illness.
Jan. 6, 1986
Former light-heavyweight champion Archie Moore received the Rocky Marciano Memorial Award from the Downtown Athletic Club in New York.
Nov. 24, 1987