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The Great Black Jockeys : The Lives and Times of America's First Sport Book

The Great Black Jockeys : The Lives and Times of America's First Sport
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The Great Black Jockeys : The Lives and Times of America's First Sport, This may be the most fascinating untold sports story in American history. We are lucky that it is so well told now by Mr. Hotaling in his wonderfully written book. It is more than a sports story, though. It is a human story. These were exceptional athlete, The Great Black Jockeys : The Lives and Times of America's First Sport
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  • The Great Black Jockeys : The Lives and Times of America's First Sport
  • Written by author Edward Hotaling
  • Published by Prima Publishing, 1999/01/01
  • This may be the most fascinating untold sports story in American history. We are lucky that it is so well told now by Mr. Hotaling in his wonderfully written book. It is more than a sports story, though. It is a human story. These were exceptional athlete
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A Preface: Jimmy the Greek for Lunch
Introduction 1
1 The Birth of American Sports: Austin Curtis and the Founding Fathers 9
2 Racing on the Frontier: Simon and General Andrew Jackson 39
3 An American Life: Charles Stewart and Napoleon 65
4 The Expansion Era: From Jesse to Cato, the Freedom Rider 97
5 The Shadows of the Civil War: "Chisel'em" and the Great Slave Sale 135
6 Free at Last? The Other Abe and the Civil War 175
7 The American Spectacle: "The Orange-Clad Boy" and the Kentucky Derby 209
8 The Rise of a Star: Ike Murphy, "Proud of My Calling" 239
9 The Great Black Hopes: Willie Simms and the Gay Nineties 277
10 The Fall of America's First Stars: Jimmy Winkfield and the Last of the Great Black Jockeys 311
Notes 341
Selected Bibliography 358
Acknowledgments 365
Index 368


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