The Six Day Bicycle Races

ISBN: 9781892495495

出版社: Midpoint Trade Books Inc

出版年: 2006-6

页数: 224

定价: $ 45.14

装帧: HRD

内容简介

Six-Day bicycle racing was once the biggest spectator sport in America: In the 1920s and 1930s, those envents held at indoor tracks around the country attracted bigger crowds and paid bigger purses than baseball, football, or hockey. This highly pictorial books tells the story of six-day racing in America from its beginning in the last decase of the 19th century up to attempts at revival in the 1970s. A lively text by Peter Joffre Nye and an amazing collection of duotone photographs allows the reader to relive this exciting period, this almost forgotten era of American sports history.