One of the Boys

About the Book

A memoir of Jack Laskin’s ten years as a professional wrestler throughout the world in a collection of stand-alone stories of Jack’s experiences in and out of the ring.

If he hadn’t of joined the Y M C A that day...

BANNED from ever wrestling in that country again!

He almost defeated a 400 lb wrestling bear.

The day Harry Lewis won his first match in fifteen years.

Rescued from a riot in South Africa by the local Jews.

Travels and working with the midget wrestlers.

Confronted with evidence of the Holocaust in Vienna

Now it can be told, Tuffy wrestled a dead alligator, and beat her.

** A selection of eight stories was successfully adapted to the stage and performed by the “Motherlode Stage Co.” in Loomis, California.

About the Author

D. O. B. 3/13/29 Hamilton, Canada Location Penryn, California (150 miles N.E. of San Francisco. Chaplain for hospitals and Folsom Prison. Also a “Lay Rabbi” for Temple Or Rishon. Settled in California and quit wrestling in February 1962. Also developed a successful side-career as a professional speaker on the “Industrial Banquet and Meeting Circuit. Married Audrey Rose in 1976, sold my business in 1989 and moved to Placer County. I keep in touch with “The Boys” by attending the annual “Cauliflower Reunions,” every year in Las Vegas.