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The Great Match Race: When North Met South in America's First Sports Spectacle
Contributor(s): Eisenberg, John (Author)

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 ISBN: 0618872116     ISBN-13: 9780618872114
Publisher: Mariner Books
OUR PRICE: $18.04  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: April 2007
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Annotation: In a fast-paced narrative--colorful, rich, and full of record-setting performances and towering personalities--Eisenberg chronicles the tremendous story of the year in which two horses would come to embody a nation galloping inevitably toward civil war.
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BISAC Categories:
- Sports & Recreation | Horse Racing
- Sports & Recreation | History
- Sports & Recreation | Sociology Of Sports
Dewey: 798.400
Physical Information: 0.71" H x 5.8" W x 8.66" L (0.76 lbs) 272 pages
Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Price on Product, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
 
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Publisher Description:
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.

Contributor Bio(s): Eisenberg, John: - 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.
 
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