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 current Auditor 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 in Newton Highlands. Still in high school, DeNucci started his boxing career at 16 years of age by winning the Golden 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 the Boston 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.

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