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A photographic portrait of what was the most popular spectator sport in America during the period from 1900 to 1930: 6-day bicycle racing. It was a big-money sport, because bets were on. The sport was tough and the stakes were high, as the most prominent people in society flocked to Madison Square Garden to watch the races and place their bets. This compilation of historic photographs reproduced in fine duotone detail and accompanying text paints the complete picture of this fascinating but almost forgotten era in American sports.
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Mary Ann Smith
reviewed The Six-Day Bicycle Races: America's Jazz-Age Sport on December 28, 2013
The Six-Day Bicycle Races
THE LONG SEASON b Bruno Schull is often advertised as an amateur's view of bicycle racing. However the book goes further than that by juxtaposing his training and racing against the 1995 professional season in Europe. It was the year that Miguel Indurain won his fifth and final tour victory and the year Fabio Casartelli died on the tour.
Schull tells of his training in the bay area of California with 4 close friends, his classes at UC Berkeley, his girlfriend and parents who are tired of his obsessive cycling. There are also sections on his training in Italy, his suspicions of the pros using drugs, his tactics during racing and deadly crashes. While all of this sounds like it should be interesting, the tone of the book is flat and joyless. Even as a cyclist and racing fan, I wanted to tell him to give up some of the cycling and live a little.
For amateur racing, of the books that I have read so far I would recommend ROADIE: THE MISUNDERSTOOD WORLD OF A BIKE RACER by Jamie Smith and THE GAMES WERE COMING by Michael Anthony over this book. .
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