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This study of a unique social world probes beneath the thrill and spectacle of horseracing into the lives of the honest boys, the gyps, the manipulators, the stoops, and the Chalk eatersthe constituents of racetrack society and the players of the racing game. With scientific precision and journalistic vigor, Scott describes the everyday activitiesthe objectives and strategiesof those whose lives are organied around track proceedings and who compete with chance and one another.Scott, Marvin is the author of 'Racing Game ' with ISBN 9780202308098 and ISBN 020230809X.
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