Louisville Gambling Barons

Author : Bryan S. Bush
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2023-04-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781467153904

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Louisville Gambling Barons by Bryan S. Bush Pdf

The Golden Age of Gambling in Louisville Louisville experienced a golden age of gabling between 1860 and 1885, thanks to the arrival of hundreds of thousands of Union soldiers by steamboat and foot. They played faro, keno, roulette and other games of chance, such as chuck-a-luck. Entire city blocks were devoted to betting. Horse racing and lotteries emerged. Gaming houses became grand palaces, with names such as the Crockford, the Crawford and the Turf Exchange, frequented by famous gamblers like Richard Watts, Colonel "Black" Chinn and actor Nat Goodwin. Author Bryan Bush offers up these stories and more about "The City of Gamblers."

Author : David Kingsley Snell
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780803296473

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The Baron and the Bear by David Kingsley Snell Pdf

In the 1966 NCAA basketball championship game, an all-white University of Kentucky team was beaten by a team from Texas Western College (now UTEP) that fielded only black players. The game, played in the middle of the racially turbulent 1960s--part David and Goliath in short pants, part emancipation proclamation of college basketball--helped destroy stereotypes about black athletes. Filled with revealing anecdotes, The Baron and the Bear is the story of two intensely passionate coaches and the teams they led through the ups and downs of a college basketball season. In the twilight of his legendary career, Kentucky's Adolph Rupp ("The Baron of the Bluegrass") was seeking his fifth NCAA championship. Texas Western's Don Haskins ("The Bear" to his players) had been coaching at a small West Texas high school just five years before the championship. After this history-making game, conventional wisdom that black players lacked the discipline to win without a white player to lead began to dissolve. Northern schools began to abandon unwritten quotas limiting the number of blacks on the court at one time. Southern schools, where athletics had always been a whites-only activity, began a gradual move toward integration. David Kingsley Snell brings the season to life, offering fresh insights on the teams, the coaches, and the impact of the game on race relations in America.

Author : Jerry W. Markham
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 525 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2022-06-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000592207

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From Christopher Columbus to the Robber Barons by Jerry W. Markham Pdf

Originally published in 2002, this is the first of three volumes in a history of finance in America. This volume covers the period from the 'discovery' of America to the end of the nineteenth century. It describes the status of finance in Europe at the time of Christopher Columbus' voyage to America. It then traces its transfer and development in America through the Revolution, into the Civil War and beyond to the speculative excesses occurring after that event.

Author : Murray Sperber
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
Page : 882 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-29
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781466876453

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Onward to Victory by Murray Sperber Pdf

From the acclaimed author of Shake Down the Thunder, Murray Sperber's Onward to Victory is a brilliant, detailed, and engrossing work of social history for not only sports fans, but anyone interested in the development of modern American culture. With the 1940 release of the classic film Knute Rockne, All American, the myth of the hero scholar-athlete was born, and with it came the age of big-time college sports in America. Drawing on a wide variety of sources, including press accounts, letters and diaries, historical papers, and interviews with many who were there, Murray Sperber recounts how the myths created by Hollywood studios were embellished and codified by a hungry press, infiltrating the collective unconscious with epic stories of players, coaches, and teams. As college sports became a mainstay of popular entertainment, they also were fertile ground for near-fatal scandal, ultimately giving rise to the modern NCAA. Sperber vividly re-creates the world of postwar America, with its all-powerful radiomen, its lurid press, its growing prosperity, and, of course, the infancy of television

Author : Sallie Bingham
Publisher : Alfred A. Knopf
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0394558510

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Passion and Prejudice by Sallie Bingham Pdf

A member of the moneyed Bingham family recounts her family's rise to power over several decades and their subsequent downfall amidst family infighting and rumors of a family murder.

Author : Albert J. Figone
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-30
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780252094453

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Cheating the Spread by Albert J. Figone Pdf

Delving into the history of gambling and corruption in intercollegiate sports, Cheating the Spread recounts all of the major gambling scandals in college football and basketball. Digging through court records, newspapers, government documents, and university archives and conducting private interviews, Albert J. Figone finds that game rigging has been pervasive and nationwide throughout most of the sports' history. The insidious practice has spread to implicate not only bookies and unscrupulous gamblers but also college administrators, athletic organizers, coaches, fellow students, and the athletes themselves. Naming the players, coaches, gamblers, and go-betweens involved, Figone discusses numerous college basketball and football games reported to have been fixed and describes the various methods used to gain unfair advantage, inside information, or undue profit. His survey of college football includes early years of gambling on games between established schools such as Yale, Princeton, and Harvard; Notre Dame's All-American halfback and skilled gambler George Gipp; and the 1962 allegations of insider information between Alabama coach Paul "Bear" Bryant and former Georgia coach James Wallace "Wally" Butts; and many other recent incidents. Notable events in basketball include the 1951 scandal involving City College of New York and six other schools throughout the East Coast and the Midwest; the 1961 point-shaving incident that put a permanent end to the Dixie Classic tournament; the 1978 scheme in which underworld figures recruited and bribed several Boston College players to ensure a favorable point spread; the 1994-95 Northwestern scandal in which players bet against their own team; and other recent examples of compromised gameplay and gambling.

Author : Leland R. Johnson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Canals
ISBN : UOM:39015073593314

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Triumph at the falls by Leland R. Johnson Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 838 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Railroads
ISBN : STANFORD:36105128583502

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The Louisville & Nashville Employes' Magazine by Anonim Pdf

Author : Patrick O’Daniel
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781496820075

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Crusaders, Gangsters, and Whiskey by Patrick O’Daniel Pdf

Prohibition, with all its crime, corruption, and cultural upheaval, ran its course after thirteen years in most of the rest of the country—but not in Memphis, where it lasted thirty years. Patrick O’Daniel takes a fresh look at those responsible for the rise and fall of Prohibition, its effect on Memphis, and the impact events in the city made on the rest of the state and country. Prohibition remains perhaps the most important issue to affect Memphis after the Civil War. It affected politics, religion, crime, the economy, and health, along with race and class. In Memphis, bootlegging bore a particular character shaped by its urban environment and the rural background of the city’s inhabitants. Religious fundamentalists and the Ku Klux Klan supported Prohibition, while the rebellious youth of the Jazz Age fought against it. Poor and working-class people took the brunt of Prohibition, while the wealthy skirted the law. Like the War on Drugs today, African Americans, immigrants, and poor whites made easy targets for law enforcement due to their lack of resources and effective legal counsel. Based on news reports and documents, O’Daniel’s lively account distills long-forgotten gangsters, criminal organizations, and crusaders whose actions shaped the character of Memphis well into the twentieth century.

Author : Stephen R. Fox
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0803268963

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Big Leagues by Stephen R. Fox Pdf

Discusses the evolution of baseball, football, and basketball and offers new perspectives on established legends

Author : Kostya Kennedy
Publisher : Time Home Entertainment
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-11
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781618939234

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Pete Rose by Kostya Kennedy Pdf

Best-selling author Kostya Kennedy delivers evocative answers in his fascinating reexamination of Pete Rose’s life; from his cocky and charismatic early years through his storied playing career to his bitter war against baseball’s hierarchy to the man we find today—still incorrigible, still adored by many. Where has his improbable saga landed him in the redefined, post-steroid world? Do we feel any differently about Pete Rose today? Should we?

Author : Jonathan Fraser Light
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 1112 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-25
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781476617442

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The Cultural Encyclopedia of Baseball, 2d ed. by Jonathan Fraser Light Pdf

More than any other sport, baseball has developed its own niche in America’s culture and psyche. Some researchers spend years on detailed statistical analyses of minute parts of the game, while others wax poetic about its players and plays. Many trace the beginnings of the civil rights movement in part to the Major Leagues’ decision to integrate, and the words and phrases of the game (for example, pinch-hitter and out in left field) have become common in our everyday language. From AARON, HENRY onward, this book covers all of what might be called the cultural aspects of baseball (as opposed to the number-rich statistical information so widely available elsewhere). Biographical sketches of all Hall of Fame players, owners, executives and umpires, as well as many of the sportswriters and broadcasters who have won the Spink and Frick awards, join entries for teams, owners, commissioners and league presidents. Advertising, agents, drafts, illegal substances, minor leagues, oldest players, perfect games, retired uniform numbers, superstitions, tripleheaders, and youngest players are among the thousands of entries herein. Most entries open with a topical quote and conclude with a brief bibliography of sources for further research. The whole work is exhaustively indexed and includes 119 photographs.

Author : Gerald Sorin
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1997-04-18
Category : History
ISBN : 0801854466

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Tradition Transformed by Gerald Sorin Pdf

Sorin argues that, from colonial times to the present, "acculturation" and not "assimilation" has best described the experience of Jewish Americans.

Author : Lyman Horace Weeks
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : New York (N.Y.)
ISBN : HARVARD:HX2X27

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Prominent Families of New York by Lyman Horace Weeks Pdf

Author : Lowell H. Harrison,James C. Klotter
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 551 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1997-03-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813126210

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A New History of Kentucky by Lowell H. Harrison,James C. Klotter Pdf

" The first comprehensive history of the state since the publication of Thomas D. Clark's landmark History of Kentucky over sixty years ago. A New History of Kentucky brings the Commonwealth to life, from Pikeville to the Purchase, from Covington to Corbin, this account reveals Kentucky's many faces and deep traditions. Lowell Harrison, professor emeritus of history at Western Kentucky University, is the author of many books, including George Rogers Clark and the War in the West, The Civil War in Kentucky, Kentucky's Road to Statehood , Lincoln of Kentucky, and Kentucky's Governors.