Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Series Editor's Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction
  • 1. Oakland's nineteenth-century parks and resorts: "Lungs of the City," commercial sporting venues, and instruments of civic boosterism / Deane Anderson Lamont ; 2. Boosterism, boxing, and the battle for the bay: the Jeffries-Johnson fight in the Bay Area / Louis Moore ; 3. Reforming the big game: the Bay Area rugby experiment of 1906-1919 / Brian M. Ingrassia ; 4. Bay to Breakers: the original fun run / Claire M. Williams ; 5. Protecting the people's mountain: hiking in Marin County and the roots of American environmentalism / Linda L. Ivey ; 6. All in the same boat: Ky Ebright, masculinity, and Cal crew in the 1920s / Adam Fitch ; 7. Off the bench: Asian Americans and sport in the Santa Clara Valley during the mid-twentieth century / Joel S. Franks ; 8. San Francisco 49ers: the romance of memory / Jeffrey Montez de Oca ; 9. Pioneers in the pool: the Santa Clara swim club mermaids of the 1950s and 1960s / Maureen M. Smith and Matthew R. Hodler ; 10. A friendly competition: the 1962 US-USSR track meet at the farm / Chris Elzey ; 11. "Skate Fast, Hit Hard": San Francisco Bay Bombers and Bay Area Roller Derby / Beth Cavalier ; 12. Sons of Oakland: the Raiders and the raz/rais(ing) of a city / Maria J. Veri ; 13. Rebel with a racket: Rosie Casals / Rita Liberti ; 14. The early gay games: The Bay Area years / Judy Davidson ; 15. The Larry Krueger incident: sports-talk radio and the consequences of imagery / Samuel O. Regalado ; Notes ; Contributors ; Index.