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Saratoga; Saga of an Impious Era

Author: George Waller

Publisher: Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall

Published: 1966

Total Pages: 428

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Saratoga: One Idiot's Journey to the Winner's Circle

Author: Patrick Kerrison

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2012-07-19

Total Pages: 163

ISBN-13: 1105998223

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Patrick J. Kerrison grew up the son of a writer for the New York Post. He spent most of his formative years at the racetrack. This story, Saratoga: One Idiot's Journey to the Winner's Circle, is a simple one. It is a light hearted and fun love story of a knucklehead kid who grew up at the races, in love with thoroughbred horse racing, Saratoga Springs, NY and ultimately an amazing woman who made a dream he held dear to him for over 40 years come true. It is also a look back at some of the more notorious and colorful people that shaped the town's history and their role in gambling and horse racing at The Spa. It is the first book by Kerrison.

Hal Chase

Author: Martin Donell Kohout

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2017-07-06

Total Pages: 348

ISBN-13: 0786450436

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Hal Chase is considered by many to be one of the best first basemen ever to play the game of baseball. He was able to make the routine look spectacular, the spectacular look routine. But Chase will never have his plaque in Cooperstown because he has gone down in history as the biggest crook in baseball. Chase was repeatedly accused of throwing games, bribing players, betting against his own team, and various other crimes, yet with his relaxed nature he always managed to get off the hook for his misdeeds by working his charm. His major league career lasted from 1905 to 1919, and by the mid-1930s he was a destitute alcoholic living off friends. The last fifteen years of Chase's life saw him hospitalized repeatedly for a variety of ailments, living off a sister and brother-in-law who loathed him. This work traces the turbulent life and times of Hal Chase from his humble beginnings to his sad end.

Sport as History

Author: Tony Collins

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-09-13

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 1317987039

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Published to mark the career of one of sports history’s pioneers, this book traces the evolution of sport across three continents. It brings together some of sports history’s leading scholars to investigate not only the history of sport but also how that history is written. This Festschrift marks the retirement of Professor Wray Vamplew – an internationally-renowned leader in the field of sports history. His 1976 book The Turf was one of the very first academic histories of sport and he has been a prolific writer, scholar and teacher for almost forty years. No one has played such an important role in the field of sports history across North America, Europe and Australia. President of the Australian, Australian Society of Sports History (ASSH), the British Society of Sports History (BSSH), the European Committee for the History of Sport (CESH) and the International Society for the History of Physical Education and Sport (ISHPES), Vamplew is currently editor of the North American Society for Sports History’s (NASSH) journal, the Journal of Sport History. This collection reflects his interests and his appeal across the three continents, the essays deal with sport in America, Australia, Britain and Ireland and focus on the themes of national and regional identity, gender, trade unionism in sport and historiographical debates. It is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the history of sport and how it is studied today. This book was published as a special issue of Sport in History.

Diamond Jim Brady

Author: H. Paul Jeffers

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2002-07-01

Total Pages: 367

ISBN-13: 0471226025

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Praise for H. Paul Jeffers An Honest President: The Life and Presidencies of GroverCleveland "A well-written and timely book that reminds us of GroverCleveland?s courage, commitment, and honesty at a time when thesequalities seem so lacking in so much of American politics." ?JamesMacGregor Burns, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National BookAward Colonel Roosevelt: Theodore Roosevelt Goes to War, 1879-1898 "A handsome narrative of a crucial period in the career of one ofour country?s most colorful politicians." ?Publishers Weekly Commissioner Roosevelt: The Story of Theodore Roosevelt and the NewYork City Police, 1895-1897 "A lively, entertaining, and well-researched portrait of a zealousreformer during the historic crusade that successfully launched hiscareer in government." ?Publishers Weekly

Burying the Black Sox

Author: Gene Carney

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 2007-06-01

Total Pages: 380

ISBN-13: 1597971081

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New insight on baseball's most famous scandal

Yankee Doodle Dandy

Author: John Dizikes

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 2004-04-01

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 9780803266414

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In the 1890s the world of racing was turned on its ear by a young American who rodeøhorses as no professional jockey had ever ridden: Tod Sloan hitched up his stirrups and thrust his weight far forward. Traditionalists laughed at first and dismissed him as a novelty, but as he came to dominate racing on both sides of the Atlantic, his style of riding became widely imitated, and his famous ?forward seat? remains universally practiced to this day. Sloan?s place in racing lore and popular culture was cemented in 1904 when George M. Cohan wrote and starred in Little Johnny Jones, a Broadway musical based on Sloan?s rise and fall in England. John Dizikes?s portrait of Sloan (1874?1933) shows a small-town, hard-luck, midwestern boy who became an overnight sensation and an international celebrity in a world of breeders, bookmakers, gamblers, hustlers, bluebloods, and princes. As the King of Jockeys in the sport of kings, Sloan lived in high style, until he was banned from British racing and forced to eke out a living on the margins of the sport for thirty years.

Mrs. Astor's New York

Author: Eric Homberger

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2004-09-01

Total Pages: 350

ISBN-13: 9780300105155

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Mrs Astor, queen of New York society in the decades before World War I, used her prestige to create a social aristocracy in the city. Mrs Astor's story, told here by Eric Homberger, sheds light on the origins, extravagant lifestyle, and social competitiveness of this aristocracy.