British Sport - a Bibliography to 2000: Volume 3: by Richard Cox

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 checklist after they misplaced an stunning 134 video games in 1899. Over a hundred years later, the 2003 Detroit Tigers stood aside because the purely crew in baseball heritage to lose 60 video games prior to July in a season.

Suffolk Downs (Images of Sports)

Considering that starting 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 reminiscent of Seabiscuit, John Henry, and Cigar. as well as those mythical horses, corridor of popularity 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 this planet of black baseball via an research of editorial paintings, folktales, nicknames, “manhood” and the artwork of clowning. African american citizens labored to dismantle Jim Crow throughout the construction of a cultural counter-narrative that founded 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 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 begun their mornings through interpreting neighborhood sportswriter Peter Finney. Finney's newspaper columns -- exciting, informative, and encouraging -- hooked up New Orleans readers to the realm of activities, for almost 70 years. From a profession overall of 15,000 articles, this ebook bargains a major choice of the superior of Finney's writing in addition to an advent from Peter Finney, Jr.