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LA sports : play, games, and community in the City of Angels / edited by Wayne Wilson and David K. Wiggins.
Van Pelt Library GV584.5.L7 L33 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Sport, culture & society (University of Arkansas Press)
- Sport, culture & society
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sports--California--Los Angeles--Sociological aspects--History.
- Sports.
- History.
- California--Los Angeles.
- Physical Description:
- x, 362 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Other Title:
- Los Angeles sports
- Place of Publication:
- Fayetteville : University of Arkansas Press, [2018]
- Summary:
- 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. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- 1 The Life Cycles of Sports Venues in Los Angeles: Sports and Local Economic Development 19
- 2 On Los Chorizeros, the Classic, and El Tri: Sports and Community in Mexican Los Angeles 37
- 3 Pitches Less Than Perfect: Notes on the Landscape of Soccer in Los Angeles 55
- 4 Figure Skating in Southern California: From Frontier to Epicenter 71
- 5 Sports Car Paradise: Racing in Los Angeles 93
- 6 Professional Football in the City of Angels: The Game Moves West 109
- 7 The 1932 Olympics: Spectacle and Growth in Interwar Los Angeles 129
- 8 "Never Go Back": Pasadena Racial Politics and the Robinson Brothers 149
- 9 Reel Sports: Hollywood Stars at Play in LA 167
- 10 Behind the Curtain: Leadership, Ingenuity, and Culture in the Making of Earvin "Magic" Johnson, Showtime, and the Laker Dynasty 183
- 11 The Golden Games: The 1984 Los Angeles Olympics 201
- 12 Shaping the Boom: Los Angeles Surfing from George Freeth to Gidget 219
- 13 The Halcyon Days of Muscle Beach: An Origin Story 239
- 14 I Was Standing There All the While: Jim Murray and the Birth of a Sports Mecca 255
- 15 Vin Scully: The Voice of Los Angeles 275.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-340) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1682260526
- 9781682260524
- OCLC:
- 1003834308
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