Secrets of Greatness by Andy Purvis

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

Suffolk Downs (Images of Sports)

Considering beginning 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 corresponding to 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 planet of black baseball via an research of editorial artwork, folktales, nicknames, “manhood” and the artwork of clowning. African americans labored to dismantle Jim Crow throughout the construction of a cultural counter-narrative that headquartered 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 all started their mornings by way of studying neighborhood sportswriter Peter Finney. Finney's newspaper columns -- exciting, 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 major collection of the superior of Finney's writing in addition to an advent from Peter Finney, Jr.