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Tex Rickard
George Lewis "Tex" Rickard
(January 2, 1870 – January 6, 1929) was an American
boxing
promoter, founder of the
New York Rangers
of the
National Hockey League
(NHL), and builder of
the third incarnation of Madison Square Garden
in New York City. During the 1920s, Tex Rickard was the leading promoter of the day, and he has been compared to
P. T. Barnum
and
Don King
. Sports journalist
Frank Deford
has written that Rickard "first recognized the potential of the star system."
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