Bookshelf: Horseplayers (Chapter 1)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Horseplayers: Life at the Track (Ted McClelland)

Chapter 1: The Blind Man and the Hustler

McClelland lives in Chicago throughout this book, and he describes his home track Hawthorne Race Course and a couple of its most notable characters in this opening chapter.

One character is Lewis, a blind panhandler who'd been posted outside the track's main entrance for decades. And the second character was a recovering addict named Glenn, who always seems to be looking for the next angle to score another $2 for the next wager.