Max Baer is arguably best known today for siring 'Max Baer Jr.' and 12 losses. He was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 1995. Max Baer died of a massive heart attack on November 21, 1959, in a Hollywood hotel. He was 50 years old. While he lay dying in his room, the hotel operator asked him if he needed the "house doctor." "No," he replied. "I need a people doctor!" A clown to the end.
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Screen, stage, radio, and vaudeville actor.
Onetime heavyweight boxing champion of the world.
Older brother of Buddy Baer.
Father of Max Baer Jr.
World heavyweight boxing champion, 1934-1935.
Inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame, 1995.
Inducted into the World Boxing Hall of Fame, 1984.
Biography in: "American National Biography". Supplement 1, pp. 24-25. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.
Inducted into the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 2010.
Was so plagued with guilt by the death of Frankie Campbell that he financially supported Campbells widow.
Became a national Hero when he fought Max Schleming with a star of David on his trunks.
Upon his death, his remains were interred at St. Marys Catholic Cemetery and Mausoleum in Sacramento, California.
Lifelong friends of Buddy Ebsen - his sons, Max Baer Jr. s acting mentor.
I define fear as standing across the ring from Joe Louis and knowing he wants to go home early. .
