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As I Remember: Memories of Len Pecore

Len loved and played lacrosse and Willie Pep, Jersey Joe Walcott, and
hockey but he loved boxing just as many others.
By Tom Fagan much. He started listening to boxing He was well aware of the boxing that
on the radio when he was ten years we now have in Cornwall and was in
old. Len once told me that when he full agreement with the venue.
was a young man, he drove to Syracuse
to watch Carmen Basilio, the world I am proud to have known him as
n early September, I lost a very good a friend and fellow sportsman. I will
Ifriend, eighty-nine-year-old Len champion, train for a match. miss him always.
Pecore. From the middle 70’s until 2008, I was
a fixture at his home, watching boxing Here is a footnote on boxing. Many
I was Len’s neighbour for over years ago I used to go to Unisex
thirty five years. He was a remarkable when possible. We truly enjoyed all the barbershop. My hair was always cut by
Ali fights. Len told me that without a
man with much talent. He was an the owner, Mr. Luis. I remember we had
accomplished machinist, upholsterer, doubt, Ali was the greatest heavyweight Photo Submitted many discussions on the greatness of
and taught wood refinishing at St. ever. Here is a list of some boxers Ali and Roberto Duran and others. We
we watched or talked about: Bob
Lawrence College. and two Canadians, George Chuvalo always had boxing in our conversations.
Foster, George Forman, Joe Frazier,
His work with fieldstone was Ken Norton, Roberto Duran, Wilfred and Yvon Durelle. I can still see a young Jorge Luis sitting
on a stool listening to both of us. You
beautiful. He designed and built, with Benitez, Jimmy Young, Leon Spinks, We also reminisced about the fighters
could tell that he was interested in
Mr. Greer, the monument that stands in Danny Lopez, Sugar Ray Leonard, of earlier times. He mentioned Henry
front of the Salem Church on Highway Tommy Hearns, Marvin Hagler, Larry Grebe, Benny Leonard, Jack Dempsey, boxing, like his father. Jorge was around
2, east of Cornwall. Holmes, Sonny Liston, Mike Tyson, Gene Tunney, Max Baer, Joe Louis, 10 years old at the time.
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