Seabiscuit：An American Legend

在线阅读本书Seabiscuitwasoneofthemostelectrifyingandpopularattractionsinsportshistoryandthesinglebiggestnewsmakerintheworldin1938,receivingmorecoveragethanFDR,Hitler,orMussolini.Buthissuccesswasasurprisetotheracingestablishment,whichhadwrittenoffthecrooked-leggedracehorsewiththesadtail.ThreemenchangedSeabiscuitsfortunes:CharlesHowardwasaonetimebicyclerepairmanwhointroducedtheautomobiletothewesternUnitedStatesandbecameanovernightmillionaire.Whenheneededatrainerforhisnewracehorses,hehiredTomSmith,amysteriousmustangbreakerfromtheColoradoplains.SmithurgedHowardtobuySeabiscuitforabargain-basementprice,thenhiredashisjockeyRedPollard,afailedboxerwhowasblindinoneeye,half-crippled,andpronetoquotingpassagesfromRalphWaldoEmerson.Overfouryears,theseunlikelypartnerssurvivedaphenomenalrunofbadfortune,conspiracy,andsevereinjurytotransformSeabiscuitfromaneurotic,pathologicallyindolentalso-ranintoanAmericansportsicon.AuthorLauraHillenbrandbrilliantlyre-createsauniversalunderdogstory,onethatproveslifeisahorserace.FromtheHardcoveredition.Seabiscuitwasoneofthemostelectrifyingandpopularattractionsinsportshistoryandthesinglebiggestnewsmakerintheworldin1938,receivingmorecoveragethanFDR,Hitler,orMussolini.Buthissuccesswasasurprisetotheracingestablishment,whichhadwrittenoffthecrooked-leggedracehorsewiththesadtail.ThreemenchangedSeabiscuit?sfortunes:CharlesHowardwasaonetimebicyclerepairmanwhointroducedtheautomobiletothewesternUnitedStatesandbecameanovernightmillionaire.Whenheneededatrainerforhisnewracehorses,hehiredTomSmith,amysteriousmustangbreakerfromtheColoradoplains.SmithurgedHowardtobuySeabiscuitforabargain-basementprice,thenhiredashisjockeyRedPollard,afailedboxerwhowasblindinoneeye,half-crippled,andpronetoquotingpassagesfromRalphWaldoEmerson.Overfouryears,theseunlikelypartnerssurvivedaphenomenalrunofbadfortune,conspiracy,andsevereinjurytotransformSeabiscuitfromaneurotic,pathologicallyindolentalso-ranintoanAmericansportsicon.AuthorLauraHillenbrandbrilliantlyre-createsauniversalunderdogstory,onethatproveslifeisahorserace.FromtheHardcoveredition.