Overtime Kids: The Untold Story of a Small-Town Kentucky by Don Miller

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 surprising 134 video games in 1899. Over a hundred years later, the 2003 Detroit Tigers stood aside because the purely workforce in baseball historical past to lose 60 video games prior to July in a season.

Suffolk Downs (Images of Sports)

Due to the fact that commencing 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 resembling 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 booklet 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 construction of a cultural counter-narrative that headquartered 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 occasions every one week during the last a number of a long time, activities lovers in New Orleans all started their mornings through studying 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 publication deals a primary number of some of the best of Finney's writing in addition to an advent from Peter Finney, Jr.