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Jim Fitzsimmons
Jim Fitzsimmons (Horse racing. Born, Brooklyn, NY, July 23, 1874; died, Miami, FL, Mar. 11, 1966.) Sunny Jim Fitzsimmons was born on a stretch of land that later became Brooklyn’s Sheepshead Bay Racetrack, but he wasn’t attracted to the sport of racing until he was 15, when he began as a waterboy and part-time jockey. […]