The Great Match Race - When North Met South in America's First Sports Spectacle

Informationen zum Autor JOHN EISENBERG was an award-winning sports columnist for the Baltimore Sun for two decades and is the author of Ten-Gallon War,That First Season,My Guy Barbaro (cowritten with jockey Edgar Prado), and The Great Match Race. He has written for Smithsonian,Sports Illustrated, and Details, among other publications, and currently contributes columns to BaltimoreRavens.com. He lives in Baltimore, Maryland. Klappentext The Great Match Race is a captivating account of America's first sports spectacle, a horse race that pitted North against South in three grueling heats. On a bright afternoon in May 1823, an unprecedented sixty thousand people showed up to watch two horses run the equivalent of nine Kentucky Derbys in a few hours' time. Eclipse was the majestic champion representing the North, and Henry, an equine arriviste, was the pride of the South. Their match race would come to represent a watershed moment in American history, crystallizing the differences that so fundamentally divided the country. The renowned sportswriter John Eisenberg captures all the pulse-pounding drama and behind-the-scenes tensions in a page-turning mix of history, horse racing, and pure entertainment.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

JOHN EISENBERG was an award-winning sports columnist for the Baltimore Sun for two decades and is the author of Ten-Gallon War,That First Season,My Guy Barbaro (cowritten with jockey Edgar Prado), and The Great Match Race. He has written for Smithsonian,Sports Illustrated, and Details, among other publications, and currently contributes columns to BaltimoreRavens.com. He lives in Baltimore, Maryland.

 

Produktdetails

• Autoren: John Eisenberg
• Verlag: Houghton Mifflin
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 05.04.2007
• EAN: 9780618872114
• ISBN: 978-0-618-87211-4
• Seiten: 258
• Abmessung: 146 mm x 216 mm x 19 mm
• Themen: Ratgeber > Natur > Pferde, Reiten; Ratgeber > Sport > Allgemeines, Lexika, Handbücher, Jahrbücher, Geschichte; Horse Racing, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, history of sport, Sport: general, Sociology: sport and leisure, Social and cultural history, United States of America, USA, HISTORY: United States / 19th Century, HISTORY: United States / State & Local / General, SPORTS & RECREATION: Essays, PETS: Horses, SPORTS & RECREATION: Cultural & Social Aspects, SPORTS & RECREATION: Animal Sports / Horse Racing