5/21/2023 0 Comments The Life Story of Abe the Newsboy, Hero of a Thousand Fights by Abe Hollandersky![]() ![]() The majority of his fights were on Navy ships or at naval stations. It was there he started hawking newspapers inside the Navy yard.Īs he grew older, his friends in the Navy trained him to fight, and he became a prolific boxer. The family settled in New London, Connecticut, which had a naval base. His family left for England when he was young, then immigrated to the United States when Abe was 7. ![]() The forgiving Roosevelt instructed one of his admirals to create a position for Hollandersky as “Newsboy of the Navy,” giving him access and free transportation aboard all Navy vessels so he could sell his newspapers to the “gobs” - slang for sailors.Ībe was born in Russia in 1887. presidents and famously punched Teddy Roosevelt in the ribs on Teddy’s presidential yacht. He was never a member of the Navy, but Hollandersky sailed around the world three times on battleships. I left the store with that vintage book journal and ever since have become fascinated with the saga of Abe Hollandersky, who started selling newspapers to Navy sailors at age 9 and made it his career for more than 50 years.Īlong the way, he also became a record-setting boxer, which explains why his mug looked as though it had been walloped 10,000 times. I also had a Bobbsey Twins journal in my hands, before Barry brought over one whose gold-stamped cover said, “The Life Story of Abe the Newsboy, Hero of a Thousand Fights.” ![]() Seuss had been transformed into a journal. I looked closely at how an old “Green Eggs and Ham” book by Dr. ![]()
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