Ben Hogan: The Myths Everyone Knows, the Man No One Knew by Tim Scott

Cellar Dwellers: The Worst Teams in Baseball History

In 1890, baseball’s Pittsburgh Alleghenys gained a measly 23 video games, wasting 113. The Cleveland Spiders crowned this list after they misplaced an superb 134 video games in 1899. Over a hundred years later, the 2003 Detroit Tigers stood aside because the simply workforce in baseball historical past to lose 60 video games sooner than July in a season.

Suffolk Downs (Images of Sports)

When you consider that beginning on July 10, 1935, Suffolk Downs has performed host to a couple of Thoroughbred racing�s maximum champions, together with Triple Crown winners struggle Admiral, Whirlaway, and attack, in addition to different greats akin 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 earth of black baseball via an research of editorial paintings, folktales, nicknames, “manhood” and the paintings of clowning. African american citizens labored to dismantle Jim Crow in the course of the production of a cultural counter-narrative that established on baseball and the Negro Leagues that celebrated black success and that highlighted the contradictions and fallacies of white supremacy within the first half the 20 th century.

The Best of Peter Finney, Legendary New Orleans Sportswriter

5 instances each one week over the last a number of many years, activities fanatics in New Orleans started their mornings by means of studying neighborhood sportswriter Peter Finney. Finney's newspaper columns -- unique, informative, and encouraging -- attached New Orleans readers to the area of activities, for almost 70 years. From a occupation overall of 15,000 articles, this publication bargains a main collection of some of the best of Finney's writing in addition to an advent from Peter Finney, Jr.