Meet the author who wrote the Jewish story behind “Wrestling at The Chase” February 21, 2022 Great things happen on planes, a time and space where people can either sleep, talk or read. Thankfully for wrestling fanatics, Jewish St. Louisan Sam Muchnick used a plane trip in 1958 very wisely. Thanks to Ed Wheatley’s book, “Wrestling at the Chase,” (Reedy Press, $39.95), Muchnick’s gamble is getting acclaim more than 60 years later. It was on that plane ride that Muchnick connected with Harold Koplar, a Russian-American Jewish hotelier and businessman in St. Louis who owned the Chase Park Plaza Hotel....
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