Jack Dempsey

1 Jack DempseyHeavyweight champ, 1919 to '26

You can take all your Tiny Tims and your Grinches and your Miracles on Whatever Street and stuff them in your stocking. The best Christmas story is about a boxer.

The U.S. Postal Service has unveiled the first sports stamps (covering the years 1900 to 1920) in its Celebrate the Century series. Honorees from later decades will be chosen by a public vote.

If ever a man gave brutality a good name, it was Jack Dempsey.JESSE WELLS, BETTENDORF, IOWA