Tales from the Philadelphia Eagles Sideline: A Collection of by Gordon Forbes

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 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 staff in baseball historical past to lose 60 video games sooner than July in a season.

Suffolk Downs (Images of Sports)

Considering that establishing 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 reputation 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 e-book 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 throughout the construction of a cultural counter-narrative that based on baseball and the Negro Leagues that celebrated black fulfillment 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 during the last numerous many years, activities fanatics in New Orleans begun their mornings via interpreting 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 main number of the superior of Finney's writing in addition to an advent from Peter Finney, Jr.