Major Taylor poses on his bike showing his winning posture. This photo was taken in the Fall of 1899 after Taylor broke several world speed records. (Taylor raced and won the 1899 Montreal World Championship.)
America's first racially integrated professional sports team, the 1897 Boston Pursuit team
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Marshall (Major) Taylor
Sobriquet available 1896 - Participated in a six-day cycle race in Madison Square Garden 1898 - held seven world records at distances from .25 miles to 2 miles 1899 - Wins Montreal World Championship (professional 1 mile at Queens Park) 1902 - European Tour entered fifty-seven races and won forty of them, defeating the champions of Germany, England and France 1903 - The world's richest bicycle race was created in Australia to attract him to compete 1910 - Quits Track Racing 1932 - Dies a Pauper in the charity ward of Cook County Hospital Chicago, buried in an unmarked grave 1948 - group of former professional bike racers, with money donated by Schwinn Bicycle Co organized the exhumation and relocation of Taylor's remains to a more prominent location http://www.majortaylorassociation.org/who.shtml |