Pro football player Dana Howard and baseball player Homer Bush, then a high school football star, are among those in the book.
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Shannon and the East St. Louis Flyers were the subject of the book The Right Kind of Heroes, by newspaper reporter Kevin Horrigan, who is now a columnist with the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
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Pro football player Bryan Cox, who played for Shannon's Flyers in the late 1980s, is also mentioned.
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Maher was trained by Lee Beard for his first three professional fights but following Beard's split with Team Hatton training was taken over by Bob Shannon.