Organized Crime in Sports (racing).
Author : United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Crime
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Page : 2962 pages
File Size : 14,61 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Crime
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Author : United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Crime
Publisher :
Page : 2962 pages
File Size : 14,61 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Crime
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Author : United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Crime
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Page : 1912 pages
File Size : 47,64 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Crime
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Author : Steven A. Riess
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 24,79 MB
Release : 2011-06-24
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0815651546
Thoroughbred racing was one of the first major sports in early America. Horse racing thrived because it was a high-status sport that attracted the interest of both old and new money. It grew because spectators enjoyed the pageantry, the exciting races, and, most of all, the gambling. As the sport became a national industry, the New York metropolitan area, along with the resort towns of Saratoga Springs (New York) and Long Branch (New Jersey), remained at the center of horse racing with the most outstanding race courses, the largest purses, and the finest thoroughbreds. Riess narrates the history of horse racing, detailing how and why New York became the national capital of the sport from the mid-1860s until the early twentieth century. The sport’s survival depended upon the racetrack being the nexus between politicians and organized crime. The powerful alliance between urban machine politics and track owners enabled racing in New York to flourish. Gambling, the heart of racing’s appeal, made the sport morally suspect. Yet democratic politicians protected the sport, helping to establish the State Racing Commission, the first state agency to regulate sport in the United States. At the same time, racetracks became a key connection between the underworld and Tammany Hall, enabling illegal poolrooms and off-course bookies to operate. Organized crime worked in close cooperation with machine politicians and local police officers to protect these illegal operations. In The Sport of Kings and the Kings of Crime, Riess fills a long-neglected gap in sports history, offering a richly detailed and fascinating chronicle of thoroughbred racing’s heyday.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Crime
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Page : 1900 pages
File Size : 48,78 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Crime
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Author : United States. Commission on the Review of the National Policy Toward Gambling
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Page : 1430 pages
File Size : 36,20 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Gambling
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Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary
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Page : 1558 pages
File Size : 21,93 MB
Release : 1975
Category : Courts
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Author :
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Page : 1388 pages
File Size : 42,99 MB
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Category : Government publications
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Author : United States. Superintendent of Documents
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Page : 1408 pages
File Size : 26,92 MB
Release : 1976
Category : United States
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Author : Michael Benson
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 117 pages
File Size : 28,38 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1438118023
Discusses the history, types, and methods of dealing with organized crime.
Author : Steven A. Riess
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 29,97 MB
Release : 2022-06-08
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0815655282
Chicago may seem a surprising choice for studying thoroughbred racing, especially since it was originally a famous harness racing town and did not get heavily into thoroughbred racing until the 1880s. However, Chicago in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was second only to New York as a center of both thoroughbred racing and off-track gambling. Horse Racing the Chicago Way shines a light on this fascinating, complicated history, exploring the role of political influence and class in the rise and fall of thoroughbred racing; the business of racing; the cultural and social significance of racing; and the impact widespread opposition to gambling in Illinois had on the sport. Riess also draws attention to the nexus that existed between horse racing, politics, and syndicate crime, as well as the emergence of neighborhood bookmaking, and the role of the national racing wire in Chicago. Taking readers from the grandstands of Chicago’s finest tracks to the underworld of crime syndicates and downtown poolrooms, Riess brings to life this understudied era of sports history.