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Henry Hascup

President of the New Jersey Boxing Hall of Fame

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The Uncrowned King of Sports Information

Henry Hascup is known as the uncrowned king of sports information. Newspaper sports writers from all over the country have called his home for all sorts of sports information. He is currently the President & Historian, for the last 22 years, of the New Jersey Boxing Hall of Fame as well as the New Jersey Diamond Gloves. He is the Historian of many other sporting organizations throughout the area, including Ring #25, Ring #34 and the Italian-American Sports Hall of Fame and is on the Board of Directors of Ring #8 out of New York and is one of the Editors on BoxRec. Henry has been asked by the New Jersey State Athletic Commissioner, Larry Hazzard to oversee the Amateur Boxing in the State of New Jersey. He also has been asked to MC many sporting functions throughout the local area and has ring announced boxing shows on ESPN, Madison Square Garden Channel, Atlantic City, Robert Treat Hotel in Newark, Westchester County Center in White Plains, Monticello Raceway, Hanover Marriott in Whippany, Iona College, Huntington Townhouse, Wildwood Convention Center, etc.
Henry is also the President of the North Jersey Majors-Met League, which is the best amateur baseball league in the state of New Jersey and one of the best leagues in the country.
His home in Lodi New Jersey contains over 12,000 sport magazines and over 2,000 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, almanacs, encyclopedias, etc., on all the major sports. He has material as far back as 1886. He has the New Jersey Boxing Hall of Fame displayed in his basement, which contains boxing gloves of Tom Sharkey from 1899, poster of the 1^st Dempsey-Tunney bout, the 1^st Ring Magazine and countless ticket stubs of many famous bouts in boxing history that date back to the 1800's. He has also done a lot of research by going through microfilms of several newspapers. He has approx. 22,000 boxing matches on his computer that he found while doing his research at local libraries.
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 throughout 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.
Henry is on many web sites answering all kinds of sport questions for people all over the world and is also a trivia checker on several others. He has also won hundreds of sport trivia contests on the web and a lot of them have banned him from entering. Just put his name up on search sites as "Google" or "Yahoo," and you will see for yourself.
He has corrected over 200 world championship-boxing records for the Ring Record Book and over 1,000 records in all.
He is a member of the Society for American Baseball Research Association, the Pro and College Football Researchers Associations and the International Boxing Research Organization.
Henry, who was a supervisor for PSE&G for 37 years before he retired in 2004, 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 that all lived with her. So all of them lived under the same roof and some people called them the Brady Bunch but they say Eight is Enough.