{"product_id":"joe-louis-vs-max-schmeling-boxing-rare-hand-signed-first-day-cover","title":"Joe Louis Vs Max Schmeling Boxing Rare Hand Signed First Day Cover","description":"\u003cp\u003eSTB030  This stunning first day cover is hand signed too - I have searched and you will find another for sale at ÔøΩ500 so grab a bargain - truly outstanding condition too.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eJoe Louis vs. Max Schmeling first day cover signed by Max Schmeling (PSA) Yankee Stadium.\u003cbr\u003eOn June 22, 1938 boxing rematch between American Joe Louis and German Max Schmeling is believed to have had the largest audience in history for a single radio broadcast. In 2005, the Library of Congress selected it for the National Recording Registry.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNBC radio announcer Clem McCarthy delivered the blow-by-blow account of the fight, which lasted just two minutes and four seconds. But it was a historic milestone ÔøΩ one that an estimated 70 million people listened to on their radios.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eIn the last of a five-part series produced by independent producer Ben Manilla and Media Mechanics, Weekend All Things Considered looks at recordings recently selected for the Library of Congress prestigious honor.\u003cbr\u003eThe fight was a rematch of a 1936 bout in which Schmeling defeated Louis, who had never before been beaten.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAfter that upset, says sportswriter Patrick Myer, Schmeling was feted in Germany, especially by the Nazis. You know, they trumpeted him as the perfect specimen of the Arian superiority ÔøΩ beating the black American, of course ÔøΩ and he was the Nazi hero.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe broadcast of the second fight, and other sounds of American history, are being preserved by the National Recording Registry. The group identifies 50 recordings to be placed in its care each year.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThere are some events and some broadcasts, some sporting activities, that reach out to millions of people and touch them in a very deep way and express a lot of their deepest cultural, racial, political hopes and aspirations, historian Lewis Erenberg says. And this is one of those events, and we have it preserved here and I think thats a wonderful thing.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Postcard Finder","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56222844584262,"sku":"182546","price":69.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0965\/3216\/9030\/files\/joe-louis-vs-max-schmeling-boxing-rare-hand-signed-first-day-cover-182546-p.jpg?v=1774002884","url":"https:\/\/postcardfinder.co.uk\/products\/joe-louis-vs-max-schmeling-boxing-rare-hand-signed-first-day-cover","provider":"Postcard Finder","version":"1.0","type":"link"}