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Old 12-05-2010, 12:47 PM   #143
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Joe Bostic

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In 1947, he became the first black to be licensed as a ringside announcer at Queensboro Arena, Ridgewood Grove and Sunnyside Gardens. And in 1972 he became the main ringside boxing announcer at Madison Square Garden.
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