I Got the Horse Right Here e-bog
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Burned out by working the baseball beat for years, in the summer of 1922 Damon Runyon was looking for a new sport to cover for The New York American as a change of pace. Having pilloried golf just a few years before, he went to Saratoga that August to sample horse racing and found that ';There, right in front of him, were so many of the characters he so loved from his time covering the comings ...
E-bog
181,00 DKK
Forlag
Lyons Press
Udgivet
25 april 2020
Længde
288 sider
Genrer
WSNB
Sprog
English
Format
epub
Beskyttelse
LCP
ISBN
9781493052219
Burned out by working the baseball beat for years, in the summer of 1922 Damon Runyon was looking for a new sport to cover for The New York American as a change of pace. Having pilloried golf just a few years before, he went to Saratoga that August to sample horse racing and found that ';There, right in front of him, were so many of the characters he so loved from his time covering the comings and goings of the Manhattan night crowd.' This was just the tonic Runyon needed to emerge from his malaise. Runyon didn't just cover the great races and which horse won: he would get to the track days before and roam along the backstretch, speaking with the trainers, the gamblers, the rich owners, and the wise guys, many of which became model characters in his fiction and in the musical Guys and Dolls. This book collects the best of Runyon's horse racing columns to 1936, when he moved on to other beats.