Champions, Cheaters, and Childhood Dreams
Subtitle: Memories of the All-American Soap Box Derby
Edition: 1st edition
Publisher: University of Akron Press
Published: July 1, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 223
ISBN-13: 9781931968058
Subjects: United States - State & Local - General; United States; History: American; History; Sports & Recreation; United States - 20th Century (1945 to 2000); Cycling - General; General; Soap box derbies
First sentence: Before writing this book I knew almost nothing about the All-American Soap Box Derby.
Description: First-person accounts help trace the history of the All-American Soap Box Derby from its beginning on a hillside in Dayton, to the corporate-sponsored event it became in the 1950s and 1960s.