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The Untold Story of Joe Hernandez:
The Voice of Santa Anita
by Rudolph Valier Alvarado
Availability: Limited first edition copies remaining;
Comes with audio CD of Joe's famous calls; Ships
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Product Description
Winner of the 2009 Dr. Tony Ryan Book Award, an award that recognizes
Thoroughbred horse racing's Book of the Year. The coveted award is
sponsored by Thoroughbred Times and Castleton Lyons.
This internationally acclaimed and award-winning biography captures the
unexpected story of Joe Hernandez, a Mexican-American, who despite his
ethnic background became thoroughbred horse racing’s greatest race caller at
a time when most Mexicans and Mexican-Americans were being repatriated to
Mexico due to America’s Great Depression.
Alvarado’s biography uncovers the extent to which Hernandez went to fit into
this Anglo-American dominated world, and reveals that Hernandez’s impact on
the sport of Thoroughbred horse racing went far beyond that of being a race
caller. This is the first biography ever written about a Mexican-American
involved in the sport of horse racing and the first to capture the social impact
that a sport played in shaping the life of a Mexican-American.
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Product Details
- Pubished in March 2008
- Binding: Soft Cover Perfect Bound
- Includes Audio CD
- 5 1/2" x 8 1/2"
- 282 pages
- 25 b/w photographs
- Footnotes, index, appendices, reader's guide
- ISBN: 9780615187570
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Selected Reviews
“The Untold Story of Joe Hernandez pulled me in like a vacuum. It’s not just a fine
piece of racing literature, but an exhaustively researched historical document that
details the origins of West Coast racing, the art of race calling, and one man’s
struggle to break through racial barriers at a time when the odds were stacked
mightily against minorities. The meticulously detailed source notes are a valuable
inclusion, and the bonus CD that highlights Joe’s race calls is an extra-nice touch—
especially the haunting inclusion of ‘Joe’s Last Call,’ in which a tape recorder was
inadvertently left running to detail Hernandez’s eerie collapse at the microphone
during the final race of his career.”
T.D. Thornton
Author of the award winning book
Not By a Long Shot: A Season at a Hard-Luck Horse Track
"One cannot question the passion with which the author approached his subject. The
amount of research involved, particularly in regard to the family history of Joe
Hernandez, is very impressive. Hernandez was indeed an enigma, in many respects
a maze of contradictions. And the enigmatic components of his private life constitute
the truly compelling aspect of the Hernandez story and of the book itself,
outdistancing the unquestionable talent of Hernandez as a race caller.... This book is
a very good read."
Bill Mooney
A two-time Eclipse Award winner
and author of The Complete Encyclopedia of Horse Racing
"Painstakingly researched over a number of years, this book attempts to bring to
flesh and blood a man known mainly through his voice, a man who kept much of his
life shrouded in half-truths. Hernandez created his own 'narrative'--his personal
history as he would have wanted it to be--which he adjusted to fit his needs. The
author discovers not only the truth of that life but explores its unique traits, those traits
that drove Hernandez to professional successes even as his personal life suffered."
Audrey Korotkin
Two-time Eclipse Award winning broadcaster and first executive director of
Triple Crown Productions
"When I read Dr. Alvarado's inspiring story of Joe Hernandez, a torrent of memories
came flooding back to me. He brings the original Voice of Santa Anita back to life,
with all his charisma joined with a personal, deep love for horses and racing born of
unique experiences."
Alan Balch
Executive Secretary and Registrar,
American Saddlebred Horse Association and Registry
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