- A. Joseph DeNucci
A. Joseph "Joe" DeNucci (born
August 30 ,1939 )cite web | author=James V. Horrigan | title=Boston Uncommon/5 Things You Don’t know about A. Joseph DeNucci – 06/20/2004 | work=Boston Globe Magazine | url=http://www.joedenucci.com/auditor.pdf | accessdate=2006-09-20] is a former middle-weight boxer and currentAuditor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts .At 10 years old, he started working in a bowling alley as a pin boy, someone who picks up the pins and racks them. A few years later, he met Red Sox baseball player
Ted Williams while working in a pharmacy inNewton Highlands . Still in high school, DeNucci started his boxing career at 16 years of age by winning theGolden Gloves Championship .cite web | title=A. Joseph DeNucci | work=Joe DeNucci State Auditor | url=http://www.joedenucci.com/boxing.htm | accessdate=2006-09-20]A boxer in the 1950s, '60s, and '70s, he lost the championship versus
Emile Griffith twice. However, he still holds the record for the most fights ever in theBoston Garden . After holding a position as a chairman on the Human Service Committee for about ten years, he now serves as the Auditor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, a position he has held since 1987.He has five children and thirteen grandchildren, and is married to Barbara DeNucci. He is a member of the
Italian-American Sports Hall of Fame .References
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