All posts tagged "bicycle racing"
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19.5K3Arts and LeisureMajor Taylor, World-Famous Black Athlete in 1899, Dies in Obscurity in 1932
Fifty years before Jackie Robinson integrated major league baseball, Major Taylor conquered bicycle racing despite death threats and deliberate injury. At the...
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16.1K15Business and LaborThe Glory Days of Springfield’s Indian Motocycle
For nearly two decades the Indian Motocycle made Springfield, Mass., the center of the global motorcycle business. From 1902, when the first...
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7.5K2Arts and LeisureFlashback Photo: Hampden Park, Springfield, Mass.
Hampden Park was the setting for the Springfield Bicycle Club’s second international meet in September 1883. The first, a year earlier, attracted...
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