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Henry Hascup is known as the uncrowned king of sports
information.
Newspaper sports writers from all over the country
have called his home for sport information. He is
currently the President and Historian, since the
mid-1980's, of the New Jersey Boxing Hall of Fame as
well as the New Jersey Diamond Gloves. He is also the
Historian of many other sporting organizations
throughout the area, including Ring #25 & Ring #34 and
is on the Board of Directors of Ring #8 out of New
York. He also has been asked to MC many sporting
functions thoughout the local area and has ring
announced boxing shows on ESPN, Madison Square Garden
Channel, Atlantic City, Westchester County Center in
White Plains, Monticello Raceway, Hanover Marriott in
Whippany, Iona College, etc.
Henry is also the President of the North Jersey
Majors-Met League, which is the best amatuer baseball
league in the state of New Jersey and one of the best
leagues in the country.
You can find his name on several dozen sport web
sites, either answering sport questions or as a trivia
checker for many others.
His home in Lodi New Jersey contains over 12,000 sport
magazines and over 2,500 sport books. He owns every
issue of The Sporting News since the early 1960's and
he has a lot of other ones that go back to the early
1950's. He has all the record books, guides,
registers, handbooks, almanac's, encyclopedia's, etc.,
on all sports. He has material as far back as 1886. He
has also done a lot of research on his own by going
through micro films and old newspapers.
The 59
year old
has been doing sports trivia since he
was a kid. A local newspaper which is called the
Bergen Record had a sports trivia question that they
gave out every week for over 20 years (it stopped in
1991) and Henry answered correctly far more than
anyone else and very selmon missed. He once answered
138 weeks in a row without missing. He has won over
1,000 sport trivia contests thoughout the area and
also thoughout the country and that's even before he
came on the internet. Among the contests he won are
the New York Daily News, the Sporting News, Sports
Magazine, the Paterson Evening News, The Bergen Record
as well as several other local papers and he has won
several radio contests including WFAN.
He has corrected over 200 world championship boxing
records for the Ring Record Book and over 1,000
records in all. He is also one of the editors for
boxrec.com.
He was a member of the Society for American Baseball
Research Association, the Pro and College Football
Researchers Associations and the International Boxing
Research Association.
Henry, who was a supervisor for PSE&G was also a
single parent of 4 kids who lived with him in his
household along with a large husky dog. If you were at
the Diamond Glove Dinner (which he MC'ed) in September
of 1988 you know that he asked his very lovely
girlfriend Joyce to be his wife in front of over 250
people and on March 12th 1989 they got married. You
might ask what does Joyce have in common with Henry,
well she also was a single parent of 4 kids and a
large husky dog who all lived with her. So all of them
lived under the same roof, some people called them the
Brady Bunch but they say Eight is Enough.
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