Real International Cricket: A History in One Hundred by Roy Morgan

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 striking 134 video games in 1899. Over a hundred years later, the 2003 Detroit Tigers stood aside because the merely workforce in baseball background to lose 60 video games sooner than July in a season.

Suffolk Downs (Images of Sports)

On the grounds that starting on July 10, 1935, Suffolk Downs has performed host to a couple of Thoroughbred racing�s maximum champions, together with Triple Crown winners warfare Admiral, Whirlaway, and attack, in addition to different greats reminiscent of 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 ebook 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 artwork of clowning. African americans labored to dismantle Jim Crow during the production of a cultural counter-narrative that based 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 20th century.

The Best of Peter Finney, Legendary New Orleans Sportswriter

5 instances every one week over the last a number of a long time, activities fanatics in New Orleans all started their mornings via examining neighborhood sportswriter Peter Finney. Finney's newspaper columns -- interesting, informative, and encouraging -- attached New Orleans readers to the realm of activities, for almost 70 years. From a profession overall of 15,000 articles, this booklet bargains a first-rate collection of the superior of Finney's writing in addition to an advent from Peter Finney, Jr.