S2 Ep2414: PLAY BALL Dan Hirshberg with Jim McLoughlin, Boxing Legend

Radio St. Pete Podcast Archive · Nov 3, 2026 · 21m

Jim McLoughlin has been in the boxing game for 60 years, as a fighter, trainer and manager. Play Ball's Dan Hirshberg takes a break from baseball this time around to trade punches with the Florida Boxing Hall of Famer about his distinguished career, the championship caliber fighters he has worked with, his father Frank who was one of Rocky Marciano's sparring partners, his own days fighting in smokers (against bikers!), and boxers the St. Petersburg icon is working with today, including undefeated middleweight Irishman Connor Coyle.