One sportswriter called the nation’s addiction “Seabiscuit-itis.” “He may have been in his time the most popular athlete that America has ever produced,” says Laura Hillenbrand ...
They don't always do it in real life, but this is one story where they did,"says Seabiscuit author Laura Hillenbrand on ESPN Classic's SportsCentury series. Perhaps no horse in the 20th century ...
He would pull Seabiscuit’s shoes off after races and have them cast into silver ash trays. He was everywhere the press was. He carried around a book filled with phone numbers of all of the press ...