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This item is a signed Time Magazine cover of Jockey Eddie Arcaro dated May 17, 1948. The item also includes an article with photos on Eddie Arcaro....................PLEASE NOTE-THIS IS NOT THE COMPLETE MAGAZINE. THE ITEM FEATURES JUST THE COVER AND THE ARTICLE............................George Edward Arcaro (February 19, 1916 – November 14, 1997), was an American Thoroughbred horse racing Hall of Fame jockey who won more American classic races than any other jockey in history and is the only rider to have won the U.S. Triple Crown twice. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest jockeys in the history of American Thoroughbred horse racing. Arcaro was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, the son of an impoverished taxi driver. His parents, Pasquale and Josephine, were Italian immigrants and his father held a number of jobs, including taxi driver and operator of an illegal liquor enterprise during Prohibition. Arcaro was born prematurely, and weighed just three pounds at birth; because of this, he was smaller than his classmates and was rejected when he tried out for a spot on a baseball team. His full height would reach just five-foot, two inches. Eventually nicknamed "Banana Nose" by his confreres, Arcaro won his first race in 1932 at the Agua Caliente racetrack in Tijuana, Mexico; he was 16 years old. In 1934, the inaugural year of Narragansett Park, Arcaro was a comparative unknown who rode many of his early career races at 'Gansett................PLEASE NOTE-THIS IS NOT THE COMPLETE MAGAZINE. THE ITEM FEATURES JUST THE COVER AND THE ARTICLE............................The Time Magazine cover has been hand signed by Eddie Arcaro................BOTH AUTOGRAPH AND ARTICLE ARE IN EXCELLENT CONDITION.
