CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - There's nothing left but memories and an audience of leaves scuttling along the cemetery path.
Sam Langford's simple headstone gives no hint of the life left behind.
In 1906, the southpaw boxer from the Cambridge waterfront stood up to Jack Johnson in Chelsea, baiting the eventual world champion with quick feints, going inside t� pepper the famous jaw with lightning jabs.
Just 5 feet 7 inches tall, Langford had the reach of a man a foot taller and hands like frozen roasts. When he stepped into the ring with Johnson at the age of 23, he had already fought professionally for seven years, a natural middleweight flattening heavyweights with numbing …
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