Major Taylor : the extraordinary career of a champion bicycle racer

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Major Taylor : the extraordinary career of a champion bicycle racer

Andrew Ritchie

Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996

Johns Hopkins paperbacks ed

  • pbk.

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Originally published in a hardcover edition by Bicycle Books, San Francisco, 1988. With new front matter

Includes bibliographical references (p. [289]-294) and index

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内容説明

World champion at 19...One of the first black athletes to become world champion in any sport...1-mile record holder...American sprint champion in 1898, 1899, 1900...triumphant tours of Europe and Australia...Victories against all European champions...Until now a forgotten, shadowy figure, Marshall Walter "Major" Taylor is here revealed as one of the early sports world's most stylish, entertaining, and gentlemanly personalities. Born in 1878 in Indianapolis, the son of poor rural parents, Taylor worked in a bike shop until prominent bicycle racer "Birdie" Munger coached him for his first professional racing successes in 1896. Despite continuous bureaucratic-and, at times, physical-opposition, he won his first national championship two years later and became world champion in 1899 in Montreal. This beautifully illustrated, vividly narrated, and scrupulously researched biography recreates the life of a great international athlete at the turn of the century. Based on ten years of research-including extensive interviews with Major Taylor's 91-year old daughter-this is the dramatic story of a young black man who, against prodigious odds, rose to fame and stardom in the tempestuous world of international professional bicycle racing a century ago.

目次

Acknowledgments Chapter 1. Prologue Chapter 2. Early Guidance and Inspiration Chapter 3. Bicycle Boom and Jim Crow Chapter 4. Precocious Teenager, Colored Champion of America Chapter 5. Rising Star Chapter 6. New Horizons, New Opposition Chapter 7. The Fastest Bicycle Rider in the World Chapter 8. Champion of America at Last Chapter 9. Superstar Chapter 10. World Traveler and International Celebrity Chapter 11. Comeback and Decline Chapter 12. Difficult Adjustment Chapter 13. Autobiography and Illness Chapter 14. Chicago Tragedy Author's Postscript About the Photographs Illustrations, Picture Sources, and Credits Notes and Sources Glossary of Bicycle Racing Terminology Bibliography Index

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