Dick Cangey

Richard M. Cangey was born on July 9, 1933, in a little apartment above a large bus garage in the town of Mahoningtown, a suburb of the city of New Castle, in western Pennsylvania. He graduated from New Castle High School in 1951 and moved to Cleveland, Ohio, to pursue a boxing career while serving a Tool & Diemaker apprenticeship. In May 1953, he was drafted into the U.S. Army and took his basic training in Breckenridge, Kentucky. The Korean War ended during Cangey's fourteenth week of training and he was sent to Aberdeen, Maryland, for the remainder of his time -- most of it spent in a office pounding a typewriter. Following his basic training in October, Cangey returned home long enough to marry his high school sweetheart, Mary Ann Medina, from Yougstown, Ohio, and go on a brief honeymoon. Cangey was discharged in February 1955 and moved back to Cleveland with his wife to resume his apprenticeship and boxing career. Cangey began a boxing career at the age of 13 and quit the ring in