Tommie Littleton Boxing,
In 1900 the Impastato family left Siciliy for New Orleans. They ran a grocery there that became the popular Napoleon House Bar in the French Quarter. Sam Impastato, however, had other ideas. When he left home he changed his name to Tommie Littleton and became a middleweight boxing champion. He made...
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University of South Alabama Archives, McCall Library
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| Summary: | In 1900 the Impastato family left Siciliy for New Orleans. They ran a grocery there that became the popular Napoleon House Bar in the French Quarter. Sam Impastato, however, had other ideas. When he left home he changed his name to Tommie Littleton and became a middleweight boxing champion. He made his way to Mobile and drew crowds who came to watch him fight on the wharves. This photo shows Tommie in the early 1930s, hitting a punching bag in the window of a local sporting goods shop, which he did for 24 straight hours! That landed him in Ripley's Believe It or Not. He later ran his own gymnasium. |
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