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Loserville : how professional sports remade Atlanta-and how Atlanta remade professional sports / Clayton Trutor.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Trutor, Clayton, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Professional sports.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (495 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Lincoln, Nebraska : University of Nebraska Press, [2021]
- Summary:
- Clayton Trutor examines how Atlanta's pursuit of the big leagues invented business-as-usual in the business of professional sports.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Forward Atlanta
- 2. America's Virgin Sports Territory
- 3. Franchise Free Agency
- 4. The Greatest Location in the World
- 5. Wisconsin v. Milwaukee Braves
- 6. Gravitating toward Atlanta
- 7. Not Catching On around Town
- 8. Losing but Improving
- 9. Atlanta Stadium, a Center of Gravity
- 10. Outside the Stadium It's the City
- 11. Atlanta Stadium, a Meeting Place
- 12. Madison Square Garden of the Southeast
- 13. The Developer Is Boss
- 14. The Politics of Metropolitan Divergence
- 15. Probably Room for Basketball
- 16. The Logical Choice
- 17. How the Falcons Lost Atlanta
- 18. Atlanta's Ice Society
- 19. Just What Atlanta Needs
- 20. I Think the Fans Showed Poor Taste
- 21. Instant City
- 22. Keep Hockey a Southern Sport
- 23. Loserville No More
- 24. How the Sunbelt Became Loserville, U.S.A.
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-4962-2504-X
- OCLC:
- 1287132628
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