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In four-wall handball, Jacobs won his first American singles championship in 1955, defeating Vic Hershkowitz in the final in Chicago. In total, he won six American singles championships and six doubles championships (partnering Marty Decatur).
The intent young man on the opposite page is Jimmy Jacobs, who leads an unpublicized but many-splendored life. He is the best handball player in the world, a talented producer of fight films...
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Jimmy Jacobs, who had become prominent in such widely diverse enterprises as handball, film collecting and fight management, died Wednesday in New York. Jacobs, known chiefly these days as...
Jun 2, 2021 · Getting to know Jim Jacobs, handballer legend. While Jim Jacobs isn't exactly a household name, he's still one of the most influential people in boxing history. When he was 17, Jim started collecting films of boxing matches. He essentially became a boxing scholar, and was trained by D'Amato himself.
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Dec 10, 2015 · Jimmy Jacobs was Mike Tyson's co-manager until he passed away from Leukemia in 1988. Tyson talked about the influence Jacobs had on his career.--Watch the fu...
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Aug 8, 2021 · Really the Greatest discusses Jacobs’s dominance in handball and his incredible aptitude for all sports. Jacobs ran a 9.8 100-yard dash, was a skeet shot of championship caliber, was good enough to be invited to play on the U.S. Olympic basketball team, and was considered by many to be the most coordinated athlete in the world.
Jimmy Jacobs dominated the sport of Four-Wall Handball from 1955 to 1969, winning every match he played during that 15-year span. Jacobs won the American Handball Association Singles Championships and Doubles title with Marty Decatur six times, and Singles in 1955–1957, 1960, 1964, and 1965.
