No assistants, … or no race: “Tom Smith Reminisces About Woolf, ’Biscuit,”
, February 1953.
10
“keyed to the highest tension …”: Grantland Rice, “Seabiscuit vs. War Admiral,”
, ed. David Woods (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1963), p. 243.
11
forty million listeners: “Seabiscuit Stands Out,”
, November 1938.
12
Roosevelt listens to race: Stoneridge,
, p. 27.
13
War Admiral favored in press box: “Woolf Shares Purse,”
, November 1938.
14
prerace: “Thrilling Seabiscuit Story,”
, November 1938.
15
George canters Seabiscuit to backstretch: Ibid.
16
“we’ll never get a go …”: Loftus, “Talk o’ the Turf.”
17
“kicks like hell …”: “Thrilling Seabiscuit Story,”
, November 1938.
18
“get on up here with me!”: Harold Washburn, telephone interview, November 9, 1998.
19
War Admiral never extended: “Seabiscuit Shows Speed in Workout,”
, October 27, 1938.
20
writer falling from press box: Jack Mahon, “The Day the Biscuit Beat the Admiral,”
, February 1974.
21
fans fainting: Mahon, “The Day the Biscuit Beat the Admiral.”
22
“His eye was rolling …”: Loftus, “Talk o’ the Turf,” p. 33.
23
tongue shot out the side of his mouth: “Thrilling Seabiscuit Story,”
, November 1938.
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