At a time when baseball's greatest heroes were not yet earning great fortunes in their chosen sport, when football was merely a game for college students, the greatest names in sports were cyclists, making a handsome living racing on tightly banked oval indoor tracks. Madison Square Garden and other venues around the country annually hosted events that pulled in crowds for six days and nights to watch the greatest show in town: the Six- Day Races. This highly pictorial book gives the first thorough account of this once robust sport. Using photographs from his own and Jeff Groman's collections, author Peter Nye provides the story that ties it all together.

Author: Nye, Peter et al

8 x 11 in. hardcover
224 pages with 350 duotone and color photographs