Personal Life
Billy married Mary Louise Smith, a member of the Smith family also from Pittsburgh. They have famous pictures of them at the famous vacation spot Ocean City, New Jersey. Billy did not get along with the former MLB champion Greenfield Jimmie Smith, who was Mary's father. A famous fight broke out between them in Jimmy Smith's Squirrel Hill home on Beechwood Boulevard. Billy Conn punched his father-in-law in the head and broke his hand. As a result of the injury, the fight with Joe Louis was postponed. Frank Deford wrote colorfully about the famous kitchen brawl in his Sports Illustrated story "The Boxer and the Blond".
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