Shelly Saltman
Sheldon “Shelly” Arthur Saltman (born August 17, 1931 in Boston, Massachusetts) is a promoter of major sports and entertainment events including the worldwide promotion of the Muhammad Ali / Joe Frazier heavyweight championship boxing matches, creating the Andy Williams San Diego Golf Classic, helping to arrange the independent NFL Players Association games during the 1982 NFL season Strike, and bringing cellular phone technology to the former Soviet Union. But in the eyes of the general public he is perhaps best known as the man that Evel Knievel tried to beat to death with a baseball bat.
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