(Library ebook) Astonishing Legends The Gambler and the Bug Boy: 1939 Los Angeles and the Untold Story of a Horse Racing Fix
♛ John Christgau ♛
| #2874860 in Books | University of Nebraska Press | 2007-10-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.50 x5.50 x.75l,.87 | File Name: 0803211228 | 254 pages |
||3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| Six Men Out|By Best Of All|In what could be described as devastating a blow to the Thoroughbred industry as the Black Sox was to pro baseball, six jockeys admitted that races were being fixed in a West Coast scandal nearly 70 years ago which became a national sensation.
And as with the Black Sox, the turf scheme features a flamboyant wise guy, naive athletes and a f|From Publishers Weekly|Christgau unveils the dark underbelly of late 1930s horse racing in this melancholy, occasionally meandering history. Early on we meet Albert Siler, aka "Prince Albert," an 18-year-old with stars in his eyes and a stunning horse racing de
“Scandal on the Turf!” the Los Angeles Times proclaimed. It was October 1940, a mere few months after Seabiscuit had won the Santa Anita Derby, and now this bombshell: “Six Jockeys Admit Horse Races Fixed.” [PDF.yd00] Astonishing Legends The Gambler and the Bug Boy: 1939 Los Angeles and the Untold Story of a Horse Racing Fix Rating: 4.93 (521 Votes)
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