SIDEWAYS GLANCE MR. ED NEVER GOT THIS KIND OF PUB.Byline: - Tom Hoffarth --The book: ``Seabiscuit: An American Legend'' --The author: Laura Hillenbrand --The essential info: $24.95, Random House, 345 pages plus notes and index. --The brief rundown: How a mud-colored, bow-legged runt The frame that remains after a collision on a CSMA/CD medium such as Ethernet. Runts are undersize packets, smaller than what the network protocol calls for, such as 64 bytes in Ethernet. Electrical interference or faulty wiring can also produce a runt. bought at a claiming race went on to Babe Ruth-like fame with a hard-luck jockey (Red Pollard), a rough-'n'-tumble trainer (Tom Smith) and far-sighted far·sight·ed or far-sight·ed adj. 1. Able to see distant objects better than objects at close range; hyperopic. 2. Capable of seeing to a great distance. 3. owner (Charles Howard Charles Howard may refer to: Earls:
--The spin: How did a fairly hefty book about some horse who ran 60 years ago vault straight to the top of The New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Times' best-seller non-fiction list just a few gallops out of the gate? OK, so it's interesting subject matter. But equally impressive is the marketing campaign. The Times ran glowing reviews about the book on consecutive weeks in early March, leading others like Sports Illustrated Sports Illustrated is the largest weekly American sports magazine owned by media conglomerate Time Warner. It has over 3 million subscribers and is read by 23 million adults each week, including over 18 million men, 19% of the adult males in the country. to follow. By the time regular folk read the work, the legend of Seabuiscuit was off and running again. --Does the book match the hype? That's a tough one. There's no doubt that Hillenbrand, a Thoroughbred racing writer since 1988, did her research - it's all laid out in 34 pages of notes with precise references that would impress any history professor reading a term paper. And eight more pages of acknowledgments are equally exhaustive. Her enthusiasm for the subject is also evident. She won a 1998 Eclipse Award for an article she did on the famed equine for American Heritage American Heritage can refer to:
But it also has spawned a Web site (www.seabiscuitonline.com) for further promotion. Whatever gets you up in the saddle. --Local interest: Plenty of detail about Seabiscuit's romps at Santa Anita, Hollywood Park and Del Mar - especially his repeated attempts to win the Santa Anita Handicap The Santa Anita Handicap is an American Thoroughbred horse race held annually in the late winter at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, California. It is a Grade I race for horses three years old and up, and is considered the most important race for older horses in North America during . --The bottom line: If it stays in the top-10 list longer than ``Tuesday's With Morrie,'' we'll genuinely be impressed. CAPTION(S): photo Photo: no caption (book: SEABISCUIT: AN AMERICAN LEGEND) |
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