Gabe Perillo, a 1944 112-pound Navy boxing champion who studied art on the G.I. Bill, combined his love of the two disciplines to become one of the nation’s renowned sports artists.
Perillo painted 18 covers for Ring magazine, and his portraits were a staple of ESPN’s “Sports Century” and “50 Greatest Athletes” series. But he was best known on Staten Island for his “Fuzzy Professor” illustrations of local sports figures in the Staten Island Register.
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