Tales from the Indiana High School Basketball Locker Room: A by Jeff Washburn,Ben Smith

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 after they misplaced an stunning 134 video games in 1899. Over a hundred years later, the 2003 Detroit Tigers stood aside because the in basic terms crew in baseball historical past to lose 60 video games earlier than July in a season.

Suffolk Downs (Images of Sports)

Considering 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 conflict Admiral, Whirlaway, and attack, in addition to different greats reminiscent of 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 publication is an exam of cultural resistance to segregation on this planet of black baseball via an research of editorial artwork, 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 situated on baseball and the Negro Leagues that celebrated black success and that highlighted the contradictions and fallacies of white supremacy within the first 1/2 the 20 th century.

The Best of Peter Finney, Legendary New Orleans Sportswriter

5 instances each one week over the last a number of many years, activities lovers in New Orleans begun their mornings via 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 occupation overall of 15,000 articles, this ebook bargains a first-rate number of some of the best of Finney's writing in addition to an advent from Peter Finney, Jr.