C C Pyle S Amazing Foot Race
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C C Pyle S Amazing Foot Race
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Author : Geoff Williams
language : en
Publisher: Tantor eBooks
Release Date : 2013-03-26
C C Pyle S Amazing Foot Race written by Geoff Williams and has been published by Tantor eBooks this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-03-26 with Sports & Recreation categories.
Among the runners of C. C. Pyle's First Annual International Transcontinental Foot Race were an assortment of underdogs, including twenty-year-old Oklahoman and part Cherokee Andy Payne, who wanted to win over the girl of his dreams and pay off the mortgage on his family's farm; Paul "Hardrock" Simpson, who was in over his head but couldn't let down his North Carolina hometown; Mike Kelly, a luckless boxer from Indiana; Seattle's Ed Gardner, one of four black runners who encountered bigotry; Charles Hart, a sixty-three-year-old Englishman hoping his best days weren't behind him; and Frank Johnson, a middle-aged husband, father, and steelworker from St. Louis who broke away from his humdrum life and dared to do something different. Newspaper and magazine journalist Geoff Williams details this historic event and the colorful cast of characters involved, based on firsthand accounts of those who were there and interviews from many living descendants. C. C. Pyle's Amazing Foot Race is a classic American story so astonishing and surreal that you have to hear it to believe it.
C C Pyle S Amazing Foot Race
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Author : Geoff Williams
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007-07-10
C C Pyle S Amazing Foot Race written by Geoff Williams and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-07-10 with Sports & Recreation categories.
An account of an incredible 3,423-mile foot race across America, the Great Foot Race of 1928, and C.C. Pyle, the legendary sports promoter who masterminded the event. A year before the Great Depression, endurance fads were all the rage, from dance marathons to flagpole sitting, and spectators would shell out hard-earned cash to watch. When notorious sports agent and promoter C.C. Pyle offered a $25,000 prize for a foot race from Los Angeles to New York, 199 runners from all over the world took their marks and half a million spectators flocked to the starting line. The race was grueling, but an astonishing 55 participants made it to the Madison Square Garden finish line 84 days later. In re-creating this classic American drama, the author accessed never-before-published material and the support of several descendants of the participants.--From publisher description.
Official Program
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Author : Charles C. Pyle
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1928
Official Program written by Charles C. Pyle and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1928 with Marathon running categories.
Official Program
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Author : Charles C. Pyle
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1929
Official Program written by Charles C. Pyle and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1929 with Marathon running categories.
Cash And Carry
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Author : Jim Reisler
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2009-01-22
Cash And Carry written by Jim Reisler and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-01-22 with Sports & Recreation categories.
C.C."Cash and Carry" Pyle made several fortunes representing professional football and tennis players--before losing everything and disappearing into history's dustbin. This work reevaluates Pyle's fast life and times while analyzing his extraordinary and enduring legacy. In 1925, Pyle rocked the sports world by inducing Red Grange to abandon the leafy confines of the University of Illinois for pro football, in essence thumbing his nose at protesting academics who insisted the move would irreparably harm both the college game and Grange's career. The book continues through all of Pyle's successes, and more than a few of his failures, including his signing of controversial French tennis star Suzanne Lenglen and his near-bankruptcy following losses incurred staging the short-lived annual Bunion Derby, as newspaper columnists dubbed the notorious 3,470-mile transcontinental footrace first held in 1928.
The Great American Foot Race
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Author : Andrew Speno
language : en
Publisher: Boyds Mills Press
Release Date : 2017-04-04
The Great American Foot Race written by Andrew Speno and has been published by Boyds Mills Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-04-04 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
This accessible and thoroughly researched nonfiction debut introduces young readers to a fascinating, little-known event—the Transcontinental Foot Race, which came to be known as the Bunion Derby. It is set in 1928, the height of the Roaring Twenties—a time of optimism, a time of excess, and the Age of Ballyhoo. Publicity-seeking Americans tried to outdo each other with outrageous stunts. Dance marathoners danced for days on end, pole-sitters sat atop flagpoles for weeks, trained athletes worked to beat records, and Charles Lindbergh made the first solo transatlantic flight. What could top this? Cyrus Avery, an ordinary Oklahoma businessman, teamed up with C. C. Pyle, the "P. T. Barnum of Professional Sports," to hold a transcontinental foot race. More than 100 men of all races and nationalities started the race in California and faced all manner of obstacles—from extreme weather to poor food and living conditions, to prejudice to injury—to make the cross-country journey across the United States, ending in New York City. This "Bunion Derby" pushed human endurance to the limits in an unforgettable show of "ballyhoo." This book is written in a folksy style that perfectly captures the mood and tone of the late 1920s and includes archival photographs, a map of the derby route, stats, a bibliography, and source notes.
Bunion Derby
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Author : Charles B. Kastner
language : en
Publisher: UNM Press
Release Date : 2007-10-15
Bunion Derby written by Charles B. Kastner and has been published by UNM Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-10-15 with History categories.
The story of Charley Pyle's 3,400-mile cross country race and extravaganza and the men who endured 84 days of mountains, deserts, mud, and sandstorms to compete for a $25,000 grand prize.
Second Annual International Trans Continential Foot Race
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Author : Charles C. Pyle
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1929
Second Annual International Trans Continential Foot Race written by Charles C. Pyle and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1929 with Long-distance running categories.
Advertisements for the second 'Bunion Derby' organised by C.C. Pyle which followed the same route as the first but in reverse. Intended to be annual, there was only ever two races run.
Life On Route 66
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Author : Claudia Heller
language : en
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Release Date : 2012-05-15
Life On Route 66 written by Claudia Heller and has been published by Arcadia Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-05-15 with History categories.
A celebration of America’s most historic highway, in words and pictures. Winding through the rugged heartland of the American West, Route 66 has resonated for generations in hardscrabble tales of hopeful seekers of new homes and new lives. It also inspired Alan and Claudia Heller, longtime residents of Duarte, a California town along Route 66, to hitch their trailer to a retirement dream and travel the road again, journeying through their home state and back to Chicago. They collected stories of the iconic highway, and what it means to the people who live along its way, for a series in the San Gabriel Valley Newspaper Group. This collection retraces their journey and introduces us to some of the people and places that make Route 66 truly historic.
Runner S World
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007-08
Runner S World written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-08 with categories.
Runner's World magazine aims to help runners achieve their personal health, fitness, and performance goals, and to inspire them with vivid, memorable storytelling.
