Size doesn't matter By Mike Puma Special to ESPN.com "Everybody identifies with the underdog, they want them to win. They don't always do it in real ...

Winning 11 races in 1937, including three victories while burdened with 130 pounds, Seabiscuit began promisingly in 1938, which was to be his lone horse-of-the-year campaign. But by mid-season of 1938 ...

Fans could buy Seabiscuit hats, toys and even wastebaskets. PD. In the late 1930s, as the Depression hovered persistently over the nation, Americans turned to one newsmaker with joyous devotion. His ...

It was nearly a year ago when a teenager in Georgia got a tip that a longshoreman in California was sitting on a case of bobbleheads. Not just any bobbleheads, said Jason Goldenberg, whose bobble ...

Seabiscuit was not an impressive-looking horse. He was considered quite lazy, preferring to eat and sleep in his stall rather than exercise. He’d been written off by most of the racing industry after ...

Laura Hillenbrand loves sports. Her debut book, 'Seabiscuit,' chronicled the career of the storied racehorse, and her second book, '"Unbroken," focuses on the harrowing journey of Olympic sprinter and ...

That was as rough a race as I’ve ever seen in my whole life. They were hitting each other over the head with their whips and Richardson had Woolf in a leg-lock. Never seen so much trouble in one race ...

Perhaps we just expected too much and placed unfairly high demands on a mere movie. Seabiscuit was supposed to drive us to tears, clean up at the Academy Awards and rejuvenate horse racing, all in one ...

It was billed as The Race of the Century: a showdown between Seabiscuit and War Admiral, two stellar horses who’d captivated America during the hard times of the day. And Pimlico Race Course was where ...

President Franklin D Roosevelt had a lot on his plate at the White House on November 1 1938. Nazi Germany was building up for World War II. The stock market was struggling to find a way to come out of ...

Police officers hoofed it to a New Jersey neighborhood after reports that a loose horse was roaming the area. The horse, dubbed Seabiscuit by police, was “canvassing” the Hunter Woods neighborhood in ...