The gambler and the bug boy : 1939 Los Angeles and the untold story of a horse racing fix /
Bernard "Big" Mooney, LA bookmaker threatens jockeys with death if they didn't "pull" their horses. His unwilling partner is Albert Siler, a callow, eighteen-year-old apprentice rider from eastern Oregon. This book tells how Big Mooney manipulated this rider and how Siler tr...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Autor principal: | Christgau, John |
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
Lincoln :
University of Nebraska Press,
©2007.
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Temas: | |
Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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