World Lightweight Champion 1902-1908

"There never lived a fighter who better combined skill, power and intelligence. If he had been a white man, he would have been the most popular champion the world has ever known." - sportswriter Robert Edgren (1916)

1910 T220, Champions, Joe Gans 🥊 World Lightweight Champion
Joe Gans was the first African-American to win a world boxing title in the 20th century. He held the World Lightweight Championship from 1902 to 1908 and was elected to the International Boxing Hall of Fame.
Even 115 years later, this card is still visually striking, not dull or washed out.
1910 T220 boxing cards are particularly stunning because their rich lithography, vivid backgrounds, elegant portrait poses, and historically important fighters combine to create some of the most artistically beautiful early sports cards ever printed.
I prefer T220 Champions over most other tobacco boxing cards of that era.

1921 Exhibits, Joe Gans 🥊 World Lightweight Champion
Joe Gans was more than a legendary World Champion Boxer.
By every historical account, Joe Gans was admired outside the ring for his character, his conduct, his dignity, and his efforts to uplift others. He was not only a great fighter; he was respected as a gentleman, a businessman, and a socially conscious figure in a difficult racial era.
In his hometown, Baltimore, MD, he was owned and operated of the Goldfield Hotel and Bar considered respectable and well run.

Happy 4th From "The Sweet Science - Boxing Group". 3 All-Time Great World Champions.
🥊1910 T220 Champions George Dixon.
🥊1909 Ogden's Pugilists & Wrestlers #50 Joe Gans.
🥊1910 T218 Champions Jack Johnson.