The Olympic Games Explained: A Student Guide to the by Jim Parry,Vassil Girginov,Craig Reedie

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

Suffolk Downs (Images of Sports)

On the grounds that commencing on July 10, 1935, Suffolk Downs has performed host to a couple of Thoroughbred racing�s maximum champions, together with Triple Crown winners struggle 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 ebook 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 situated 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 each one week over the last a number of many years, activities fanatics in New Orleans all started their mornings via 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 occupation overall of 15,000 articles, this e-book bargains a chief collection of the superior of Finney's writing in addition to an advent from Peter Finney, Jr.