Table of Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

1. The Pocket Baby

2. Kokomo Joe

3. Mister Charley

4. Brilliant Queen

5. The Yankee Doodle Boys

6. Joltin' Joe

7. The Railbird Witch

8. The Oriental Invaders

9. Lumberjacks and Truckers

10. Joe Btfsplk

11. Miserable Saboteurs

12. Nipponese Dynamite

13. Hoover's Lists

14. Fibber McGee

15. The Whiz Kid with the Jive Drive

16. The Canadian Mounties

17. Chester from Gunsmoke

18. Stargazers

Sources

Promotional Information

Biography of Yoshio "Joe" Kobuki, the first Japanese American jockey in the United States

About the Author

John Christgau (1934–2018), was an English instructor and lecturer, and is the author of many books, including The Gambler and the Bug Boy: 1939 Los Angeles and the Untold Story of a Horse Racing Fix (Nebraska 2007) and Tricksters in the Madhouse: Lakers vs. Globetrotters, 1948, available in a Bison Books edition.

Reviews

"Christgau masterfully unearths a story about a small man with a giant spirit struggling to realize a dream in the midst of racial hatred and war."oSatsuki Ina, producer of From a Silk Cocoon