LA Sports brings together sixteen essays covering various aspects of the development and changing nature of sport in one of America’s most fascinating and famous cities. The writers cover a range of topics, including the history of car racing and ice skating, the development of sport venues, the power of the Mexican fan base in American soccer leagues, the intersecting life stories of Jackie and Mack Robinson, the importance of the Showtime Lakers, the origins of Muscle Beach and surfing, sport in Hollywood films, and more.
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Brings together sixteen essays covering various aspects of the development and changing nature of sport in one of America's most fascinating and famous cities. The writers cover a range of topics, including the history of car racing and ice skating, the development of sport venues, the power of the Mexican fan base in American soccer leagues, and the importance of the Showtime Lakers.
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Introduction“I Love LA”: The Sporting Culture of Los Angeles1. The Life Cycles of Sports Venues in Los Angeles: Sports and Local Economic Development2. On Los Chorizeros, the Classic, and El Tri: Sports and Community in Mexican Los Angeles3. Pitches Less Than Perfect: Notes on the Landscape of Soccer in Los Angeles4. Figure Skating in Southern California: From Frontier to Epicenter5. Sports Car Paradise: Racing in Los Angeles6. Professional Football in the City of Angels: The Game Moves West7. The 1932 Olympics: Spectacle and Growth in Interwar Los Angeles8. “Never Go Back”: Pasadena Racial Politics and the Robinson Brothers9. Reel Sports: Hollywood Stars at Play in LA10. Behind the Curtain: Leadership, Ingenuity, and Culture in the Making of Earvin “Magic” Johnson, Showtime, and the Laker Dynasty11. The Golden Games: The 1984 Los Angeles Olympics12. Shaping the Boom: Los Angeles Surfing from George Freeth to Gidget13. The Halcyon Days of Muscle Beach: An Origin Story14. I Was Standing There All the While: Jim Murray and the Birth of a Sports Mecca15. Vin Scully: The Voice of Los Angeles
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“LA Sports tells the story of a major phenomenon in one of modernity’s most spellbinding cities. Compiled by leading experts, with a refreshing blend of academic and personal approaches, this volume offers a range of insights. From soccer to figure skating, sports cars to surfing, not to mention the twin Olympics with which the city is identified worldwide, it is the perfect introduction/companion to the multifaceted reach of sport in Southern California.”—Christopher Young, University of Cambridge“This is an important and groundbreaking collection of essays on sport in Los Angeles. Scholars from a range of disciplines engage with diverse sports across the metropolis. Themes of race, ethnicity, gender, and class underpin this timely contribution to our understanding of sport in the City of Angels.”—Chris Bolsmann, California State University, Northridge“An impressive effort . . . highly original, deeply researched, and thoroughly engaged with the fields of urban and sporting history.”—Robert Edelman, University of California, San Diego
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781682260524
Publisert
2018-02-28
Utgiver
Vendor
University of Arkansas Press
Vekt
565 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
UP, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
376

Biographical note

Wayne Wilson is vice president for education services at the LA84 Foundation, where he is responsible for digital library development, research projects, conference planning, and the foundation’s coaching and education program. He is the coeditor of the Oxford Handbook of Sport History.

David K. Wiggins is professor of sport history in the School of Recreation, Health, and Tourism at George Mason University. He is the former editor of Quest and the Journal of Sport History and was recently elected president of the North American Society for Sport History. He is the editor or coeditor of DC Sports, Out of the Shadows, Philly Sports, Rivals, and Separate Games.