Cellar Dwellers: The Worst Teams in Baseball History by Jonathan Weeks

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 once they misplaced an astounding 134 video games in 1899. Over a hundred years later, the 2003 Detroit Tigers stood aside because the in simple terms staff in baseball historical past to lose 60 video games sooner than July in a season.

Suffolk Downs (Images of Sports)

For the reason 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 conflict Admiral, Whirlaway, and attack, in addition to different greats comparable to Seabiscuit, John Henry, and Cigar. as well as those mythical horses, corridor of reputation 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 booklet is an exam of cultural resistance to segregation on this planet of black baseball via an research of editorial artwork, folktales, nicknames, “manhood” and the paintings of clowning. African americans labored to dismantle Jim Crow in the course of the construction of a cultural counter-narrative that based 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 every one week during the last a number of many years, activities enthusiasts in New Orleans started their mornings by means of interpreting neighborhood sportswriter Peter Finney. Finney's newspaper columns -- unique, informative, and encouraging -- attached New Orleans readers to the realm of activities, for almost 70 years. From a occupation overall of 15,000 articles, this ebook bargains a chief choice of the superior of Finney's writing in addition to an creation from Peter Finney, Jr.