{"product_id":"out-of-the-clouds-9780316432238","title":"Out of the Clouds","description":"\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.","brand":"Grand Central Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51105588314417,"sku":"9780316432238","price":37.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0787\/2420\/2801\/files\/O_42e33423-f203-4d24-9b26-adfb80aa98bb.jpg?v=1764165766","url":"https:\/\/pageaday.com\/products\/out-of-the-clouds-9780316432238","provider":"Page-A-Day","version":"1.0","type":"link"}