The Six-Day Bicycle Races: America's Jazz-age Sport
by Peter Nye, Jeff Groman, Mark Tyson
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Author: Jeff Groman, Mark Tyson, Peter NyeEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2006-05-30
ISBN: 189249549X
Number of pages: 240
Publisher: Cycle Publishing
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Summary: 5 Stars
This book contains some excellent vintage race pics. The text is essentially a transcript of the video. This is a great gift for track racing enthusiasts. Makes you want to get out to the velodrome and ride!
Summary of The Six-Day Bicycle Races: America's Jazz-age Sport
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.General Books
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