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This former Yankee didn't like the way the Dodgers talked smack after beating the Yankees in the World Series last fall.

John L. Sullivan wins the world heavyweight bare-knuckle title by beating Paddy Ryan in a nine-round bout in Mississippi City, Miss. 1942 — At the Millrose Games in New York, Dutch Warmerdam becomes ...