Australian Beach Cultures: The History of Sun, Sand and Surf by Douglas Booth

Cellar Dwellers: The Worst Teams in Baseball History

In 1890, baseball’s Pittsburgh Alleghenys received a measly 23 video games, wasting 113. The Cleveland Spiders crowned this list after they misplaced an outstanding 134 video games in 1899. Over a hundred years later, the 2003 Detroit Tigers stood aside because the in basic terms staff in baseball historical past to lose 60 video games ahead of July in a season.

Suffolk Downs (Images of Sports)

Because establishing on July 10, 1935, Suffolk Downs has performed host to a few of Thoroughbred racing�s maximum champions, together with Triple Crown winners struggle Admiral, Whirlaway, and attack, in addition to different greats comparable to Seabiscuit, John Henry, and Cigar. as well as those mythical horses, corridor of repute jockeys George Woolf, Johnny Longden, Eddie Arcaro, Chris McCarron, Angel Cordero, and Jerry Bailey have all competed on the East Boston oval.

The Set-Up Men: Race, Culture and Resistance in Black Baseball

This e-book is an exam of cultural resistance to segregation on the planet of black baseball via an research of editorial paintings, folktales, nicknames, “manhood” and the artwork of clowning. African americans labored to dismantle Jim Crow in the course of the construction of a cultural counter-narrative that established on baseball and the Negro Leagues that celebrated black fulfillment and that highlighted the contradictions and fallacies of white supremacy within the first 1/2 the 20th century.

The Best of Peter Finney, Legendary New Orleans Sportswriter

5 occasions each one week over the last numerous many years, activities fanatics in New Orleans begun their mornings through interpreting neighborhood sportswriter Peter Finney. Finney's newspaper columns -- wonderful, informative, and encouraging -- attached New Orleans readers to the realm of activities, for almost 70 years. From a profession overall of 15,000 articles, this booklet deals a chief number of the superior of Finney's writing in addition to an advent from Peter Finney, Jr.