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The Great Match Race: When North Met South in America's First Sports Spectacle
The Great Match Race When North Met South in America's First Sports Spectacle
Author: John Eisenberg
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 ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780618872114
ISBN-10: 0618872116
Publication Date: 4/5/2007
Pages: 272
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Publisher: Mariner Books
Book Type: Paperback
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