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- Birth namePatrick Francis Anthony Nolan Putnam
- Pat Putnam was born on April 27, 1930 in Schenectady, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for She Came to the Valley (1979), HBO Boxing (1973) and ESPN SportsCentury (1999). He died on November 27, 2005 in Schenectady, New York, USA.
- Boxing writer who broke the news that heavyweight champion Cassius Clay had changed his name to Muhammad Ali.
- Served as a Marine in the Korean War during which he received several Purple Hearts and endured 17 months as a prisoner of war. His war time experience left him with only one lung and a life time of back problems.
- At a 1991 fight in Reno the ring announcer was introducing celebrities to the crowd when Putnam yelled out to him that he better not forget Joe DiMaggio. The announcer agreed and asked the audience to give him a hand. The only problem was that DiMaggio was not in attendance.
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