Lost Bluegrass: History of a Vanishing Landscape by Ronnie Dreistadt

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

Suffolk Downs (Images of Sports)

On account 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 battle Admiral, Whirlaway, and attack, in addition to different greats comparable to Seabiscuit, John Henry, and Cigar. as well as those mythical horses, corridor of status 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 paintings of clowning. African americans labored to dismantle Jim Crow in the course of the production 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 20th century.

The Best of Peter Finney, Legendary New Orleans Sportswriter

5 occasions each one week during the last a number of many years, activities fanatics in New Orleans started their mornings via studying neighborhood sportswriter Peter Finney. Finney's newspaper columns -- wonderful, 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 ebook deals a major collection of the superior of Finney's writing in addition to an creation from Peter Finney, Jr.