Loserville : how professional sports remade Atlanta-and how Atlanta remade professional sports / Clayton Trutor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Trutor, Clayton, author.

Contributor:

ProQuest ebook central.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Professional sports--Georgia--Atlanta--History--20th century.

Professional sports.

Sports franchises--Georgia--Atlanta--History--20th century.

Sports franchises.

History.

Georgia--Atlanta.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2021.

System Details:

text file

Contents:

List of illustrations

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Forward Atlanta

America's virgin sports territory

Franchise free agency

"The greatest location in the world"

Wisconsin v. Milwaukee Braves

"Gravitating toward Atlanta"

"Not catching on around town"

"Losing but improving"

Atlanta stadium: "a center of gravity"

"Outside the stadium, it's the city"

Atlanta stadium: "a meeting place"

The Madison Square Garden of the Southeast

"The developer is boss"

The politics of metropolitan divergence

Probably room for basketball

"The logical choice"

How the Falcons lost Atlanta

"Atlanta's ice society"

"A white player of his ability is just what Atlanta and the NBA need"

I think the fans showed poor taste

Instant city

"Keep hockey a southern sport"

"Loserville no more"

How the Sunbelt became "Loserville, U.S.A."

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Online version: Trutor, Clayton, Loserville

ISBN:

9781496230096

1496230094

Publisher Number:

40030884077

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.