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Seabiscuit An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand
Laura Hillenbrand, author of the runaway phenomenon Unbroken, brilliantly re-creates a universal underdog story in this #1 New York Times bestseller.
Seabiscuit
was one of the most electrifying and popular attractions in sports
history and the single biggest newsmaker in the world in 1938,
receiving more coverage than FDR, Hitler, or Mussolini. But his
success was a surprise to the racing establishment, which had written
off the crooked-legged racehorse with the sad tail. Three men changed
Seabiscuit’s fortunes:
Charles Howard was a onetime bicycle
repairman who introduced the automobile to the western United States
and became an overnight millionaire. When he needed a trainer for his
new racehorses, he hired Tom Smith, a mysterious mustang breaker from
the Colorado plains. Smith urged Howard to buy Seabiscuit for a
bargain-basement price, then hired as his jockey Red Pollard, a failed
boxer who was blind in one eye, half-crippled, and prone to quoting
passages from Ralph Waldo Emerson. Over four years, these unlikely
partners survived a phenomenal run of bad fortune, conspiracy, and
severe injury to transform Seabiscuit from a neurotic, pathologically
indolent also-ran into an American sports icon. (From Amazon.com product listing.)
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