Burned out by working the baseball beat for years, in the summer of
1922 Damon Runyon was looking for a new sport to cover for The New
York American as a change of pace. Having pilloried golf just a few
years before, he went to Saratoga that August to sample horse
racing and found that "There, right in front of him, were so many
of the characters he so loved from his time covering the comings
and goings of the Manhattan night crowd." This was just the tonic
Runyon needed to emerge from his malaise. Runyon didn't just cover
the great races and which horse won: he would get to the track days
before and roam along the backstretch, speaking with the trainers,
the gamblers, the rich owners, and the wise guys, many of which
became model characters in his fiction and in the musical Guys and
Dolls. This book collects the best of Runyon's horse racing columns
to 1936, when he moved on to other beats. In addition to an
introduction, Reisler will include a "cast of characters" that will
provide short biographies of a number of people Runyon discusses in
his columns.
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