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- Anthony_Joseph_Drexel_Biddle,_Sr. abstract "Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle I (1874–1948), also known as Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle, Sr., was the man upon whom the book My Philadelphia Father and the play and film The Happiest Millionaire were based. He was a fellow of the American Geographical Society and was renowned as an eccentric gentleman whose fortune allowed him to pursue theatricals, self-published writing, athletics, and Christianity on a full-time basis; he also kept alligators as pets. He founded a movement called \"Athletic Christianity\" that eventually attracted 300,000 members around the world. A 1955 Sports Illustrated article called him \"boxing's greatest amateur\" as well as a \"major factor in the re-establishment of boxing as a legal and, at that time, estimable sport.\"".