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In 1912, Las Vegas businessmen bid $100,000 to host a prizefight that they hoped would bring national prestige to their town. But it was tiny Las Vegas, New Mexico, not the famous gambling capital in Nevada, that hosted the fight. The boxers were Black...

Toby Smith will be at the UNM Bookstore Thursday, Feb. 19 at noon to sign copies of Bush League Boys: The Postwar Legends of Baseball in the American Southwest (University of New Mexico Press, 2014). This event is free and open to the public.