Not many Clevelanders of Irish descent can boast that 200,000 people lined the streets of downtown Cleveland just to catch a glimpse of them. That’s what happened on March 17, 1912, when boxer Johnny Kilbane returned from California to his hometown after winning the world featherweight title for the first time a few weeks earlier, on February 22. It was a title Kilbane would retain
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