Jake LaMotta, who died last month at the age of 95, wasn’t the best middleweight boxer of the late 1940s, though he did hold the world title in that division for two years.

Matthew Macklin faces a third world title bid in Connecticut tonight. John Riordan spoke to him in New York City this week.

YANKEE STADIUM, which closed last Saturday night, opened for business on April 18, 1923 with a baseball game between the New York Yankees and the Boston Red Sox.