Triumph Books is a Chicago-based sports book publisher. The company is well known for its "instant books", such as its illustrated tribute to
NASCAR
The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing, LLC (NASCAR) is an American auto racing sanctioning and operating company that is best known for stock car racing. The privately owned company was founded by Bill France Sr. in 1948, and hi ...
driver
Dale Earnhardt
Ralph Dale Earnhardt Sr. (; April 29, 1951February 18, 2001) was an American professional stock car driver and team owner, who raced from 1975 to 2001 in the former NASCAR Winston Cup Series (now called the NASCAR Cup Series), most notably dri ...
, which was released 10 days after his
death in a crash in the
2001 Daytona 500.
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Mitch Rogatz is the founder and publisher of Triumph. After founding the company in 1989, he sold it to
Random House
Random House is an American book publisher and the largest general-interest paperback publisher in the world. The company has several independently managed subsidiaries around the world. It is part of Penguin Random House, which is owned by Germ ...
in 2006, only to buy it back five years later.
The company releases 80–90 titles each year, of which 5–10 percent are instant books.
References
1989 establishments in the United States
Book publishing companies of the United States
Books about sportspeople
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