Sandy Saddler "Prejudice kept me out of the hall of fame"

Each year, more than 300 sports writers and broadcasters cast their ballots and elect new members to the Boxing Hall of Fame. Election to the Hall is considered a great honor by most fighters, second only to the winning of a championship. Election to the Hall is supposed to be based on each man's greatness as a fighter. Yet one man, unquestionably one of the best fighters of all time in his division, is conspicuously absent from the Boxing Hall of Fame—Sandy Saddler, retired, two-time, undefeated featherweight champion of the world. Sandy has been retired since 1957. 'In that time, numerous featherweights and lightweights have been chosen for induction, yet Sandy, for unexplained reasons, has always been bypassed. Since Sandy became eligible for selection in 1959, two years after retirement, men like Lew Tendler, Billy Petrolle, Willie Pep, and Lou Ambers have been inducted, but Sandy Saddler still waits for this reward most certainly due him. No one connected with the Hall of Fame,

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