caption death_date death_place birth_name birth_place years_active imagesize birth_date known_for image article_title name occupation
tex rickard 6 january 1929 miami , florida , usa george lewis rickard kansas city , missouri , usa 1896 -- 1929 210px 2 january 1870 rebuilt large audiences madison square garden first to promote boxing to tex rickard.jpg tex rickard
 tex rickard gambler , bartender , boxing promoter
tex rickard

george lewis `` tex '' rickard -lrb- january 2 , 1870 -- january 6 , 1929 -rrb- was an american boxing promoter , founder of the new york rangers of the national hockey league -lrb- nhl -rrb- , and builder of the third incarnation of madison square garden in new york city .
during the 1920s , tex rickard was the leading promoter of the day , and he has been compared to p. t. barnum and don king .
sports journalist frank deford has written that rickard `` first recognized the potential of the star system . ''
