Suffolk Downs (Images of Sports) by Christian Teja

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 magnificent 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 sooner than July in a season.

Suffolk Downs (Images of Sports)

Because beginning on July 10, 1935, Suffolk Downs has performed host to a few of Thoroughbred racing�s maximum champions, together with Triple Crown winners conflict Admiral, Whirlaway, and attack, in addition to different greats equivalent to Seabiscuit, John Henry, and Cigar. as well as those mythical horses, corridor of popularity 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 planet of black baseball via an research of editorial paintings, folktales, nicknames, “manhood” and the artwork of clowning. African american citizens labored to dismantle Jim Crow in the course of the production 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 instances every one week over the last a number of a long time, activities lovers in New Orleans started their mornings by means of studying neighborhood sportswriter Peter Finney. Finney's newspaper columns -- wonderful, 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 publication bargains a primary number of some of the best of Finney's writing in addition to an advent from Peter Finney, Jr.