{"product_id":"out-of-the-clouds","title":"Out of the Clouds","description":"\u003ch1\u003eOut of the Clouds\u003c\/h1\u003eLinda Carroll\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Grand Central Publishing\u003cbr\u003eMay 29 2018\u003cbr\u003eEAN: 9780316432238\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 0316432237\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eItems marked as \u003cb\u003eWAREHOUSE\u003c\/b\u003e may take additional time to be delivered to your address or picked up in the store.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSynopsis: \u003cb\u003eIn the bestselling tradition of\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003ethe \u003ci\u003eThe Eighty-Dollar Champion\u003c\/i\u003e, the propulsive, inspiring Cinderella story of Stymie, an unwanted Thoroughbred, and Hirsch Jacobs, the once dirt-poor trainer who bought the colt on the cheap and molded him into the most popular horse of his time and the richest racehorse the world had ever seen. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In the wake of World War II, as turmoil and chaos were giving way to a spirit of optimism, Americans were looking for inspiration and role models showing that it was possible to start from the bottom and work your way up to the top-and they found it in Stymie, the failed racehorse plucked from the discard heap by trainer Hirsch Jacobs. Like Stymie, Jacobs was a commoner in \"The Sport of Kings,\" a dirt-poor Brooklyn city slicker who forged an unlikely career as racing's winningest trainer by buying cheap, unsound nags and magically transforming them into winners. The $1,500 pittance Jacobs paid to claim Stymie became history's biggest bargain as the ultimate iron horse went on to run a whopping 131 races and win 25 stakes, becoming the first Thoroughbred ever to earn more than $900,000. The Cinderella champion nicknamed \"The People's Horse\" captivated the masses with his rousing charge-from-behind stretch runs, his gritty blue-collar work ethic, and his rags-to-riches success story. In a golden age when horse racing rivaled baseball and boxing as America's most popular pastime, he was every bit as inspiring a sports hero as Joe DiMaggio and Joe Louis. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Taking readers on a crowd-pleasing ride with Stymie and Jacobs, \u003ci\u003eOut of the Clouds\u003c\/i\u003e -- the winner of the Dr. Tony Ryan Book Award -- unwinds a real-life Horatio Alger tale of a dauntless team and its working-class fans who lived vicariously through the stouthearted little colt they embraced as their own.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"27th Letter Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67391320621101,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0673\/3588\/0749\/files\/original_8caf3f95-873e-4ca2-b145-bc994655de0c.jpg?v=1787353338","url":"https:\/\/27thletterbooks.com\/products\/out-of-the-clouds","provider":"27th Letter Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}