one of the worse horses in the race. It also shows that people did not want to place their slot as Seabiscuit because they figured he would lose. The last reason why this quote proves that Seabiscuit lost popularity was because it showed that once the word got around that Seabiscuit became lame ,then no one wanted to cheer for Seabiscuit because they did not want to lose their bets. There consists of many other ways to explain how Seabiscuit's popularity grew and sank. The article “Four Legs Good Between Us” consists of many ways how Seabiscuit’s popularity changed, like when the article said, “In one year Seabiscuit made more newspaper columns than Roosevelt, Hitler, and Mussolini” (Hillenbrand 139). This quote proves that Seabiscuit started to become the big talk in the world because he became in more newspapers than many famous people of the world. This quote also shows that people became more amused by the race horse than many other famous people in the world, so Seabiscuit’s popularity grew widely.
The last thing that this quote proves that Seabiscuit’s popularity grew because most people saw the at least some of the newspapers and then it brought some more people on to cheer on Seabiscuit and his team. The last source comes from a Timeline by WGBH. This timeline says, “Seabiscuit draws a crowd of 45,000 excited fans(most in a horse race at the time) and wins the San Juan Capistrano Handicap by seven lengths” (Timeline 140). This quote provides much information on how Seabiscuit’s popularity increased because it shows that the fans love to watch and cheer on Seabiscuit. This quote also shows that Seabiscuit’s popularity will consist of going to start getting even higher if he keeps on winning. This quote also shows more proof on how Seabiscuit’s popularity increases and that proves Seabiscuit brought in the most people in a sports race because of only one reason and that has proven to because he a one of the most famous celebrity of the time. Over the years Seabiscuit has became one of the biggest phenomenal celebrities, there consists of much more evidence that will prove Seabiscuit’s
popularity.