An admission ticket for the Joe Louis Training Camp held at the Pine Street YMCA in St. Louis, Missouri. The ticket has black type printed on a light blue pass. A red stamp overlays the ticket.
A light brown season ticket for the St. Louis Browns American League Baseball with black and red text throughout. The ticket is for a game on July 18, 1953 and is a special reserved seat ticket. The ticket is for section E, Row 1, Seat 13. Additional text is on the back.
Green narrow ticket for the World Heavyweight Championship of Sonny Liston versus Cassius Clay (Muhammad Ali). Ticket is divided two thirds of the way from the left by a large rectangle box featuring two (2) black and white portraits of the boxers. There are seven (7) punched holes throughout the ticket. Five (5) of the punched holes are cross shaped while the other two (2) are crown shaped. Most of the ticket is in black ink with the seat section, number, and ticket price in red ink. On the back of the ticket is a legal statement about the ticket stating that the ticket is good only for the date listed with no refunds available.
The fight, known as "Ali vs. Liston II" (the pair boxed previously in 1964 in Miami Beach, Florida), was Ali's first after changing his name from Cassius Clay.
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A blue ticket with black type for a Heavyweight Boxing Match for the Championship of the World between Muhammad Ali and Sonny Liston on May 25, 1965 in St. Dominic's Arena in Lewiston, Maine. The ticket has images of both Ali and Liston on the front. The back of the ticket has the name of the and location of the National Ticket Company with a union bug for the Typographical Union #7 in Shamokin, Pennsylvania.
A yellow admission ticket for a boxing match between Champion Muhammad Ali and Challenger Floyd Patterson. The ticket is made of yellow paper with red and black ink on it. There are two photo portraits visible next to Ali and Patterson's names. The back of the ticket is blank.