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Tommy Campbell, Kansas City’s Greatest Boxer
Series:
Missouri Valley Sundays
In the late 1940s and 1950s, Kansas City native Tommy Campbell won 50 professional fights and became the world’s No. 2 lightweight. But thanks to a run-in with organized crime, he is now all but forgotten in the town that nurtured him.
Phil S. Dixon, author of Tommy Campbell: A Boxing Bout with the Mob, relates how Campbell became the only fighter to testify in court about how mobsters attempted to seize control of the lightweight division, muscling him into throwing one fight.
Dixon, a resident of Belton, Missouri, is the author of The Monarchs: 1920-1938; John “Buck” O’Neil: The Rookie, the Man, the Legacy; Wilber “Bullet” Rogan and the Kansas City Monarchs; and The Ultimate Kansas City Baseball Trivia Quiz Book.
Upcoming in this series:
Erik Stafford
'Chasing After Freedom'
Sunday, June 22, 2025
2:00pm
In honor of Juneteenth, local historian Erik Stafford explores how African Americans in Kansas City pursued freedom, from escaping their enslavers through the Underg...
Watch or Listen to Past Events in this Series:
Jerry Enzler
Jim Bridger: Trailblazer of th...
Sunday, May 16, 2021
3:00pm
Even among the iconic frontiersmen of the American West, Jim Bridger stands out as larger than life.
Born in 1804 and orphaned at 13, Bridger made his first w...