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"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 venu...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Wilson, Wayne, 1950- (Editor ), Wiggins, David Kenneth, 1951- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: [Fayetteville, Ark.] : University of Arkansas Press, [2018]
Colección:Sport, culture & society (University of Arkansas Press)
Temas:
Sports > California > Los Angeles > Sociological aspects > History.
Sports > Californie > Los Angeles > Aspect sociologique > Histoire.
GAMES > Gambling > Sports.
SPORTS & RECREATION > Business Aspects.
SPORTS & RECREATION > Essays.
SPORTS & RECREATION > History.
SPORTS & RECREATION > Reference.
TRAVEL > Special Interest > Sports.
Sports > Sociological aspects
California > Los Angeles
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Series Editor's Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction. "I Love LA": The Sporting Culture of Los Angeles / Mark Dyreson
  • 1. The Life Cycles of Sports Venues in Los Angeles: Sports and Local Economic Development / Greg Andranovich and Matthew J. Burbank
  • 2. On Los Chorizeros, the Classic, and El Tri: Sports and Community in Mexican Los Angeles / Luis Alvarez
  • 3. Pitches Less Than Perfect: Notes on the Landscape of Soccer in Los Angeles / Jennifer Doyle
  • 4. Figure Skating in Southern California: From Frontier to Epicenter / Susan Brownell
  • 5. Sports Car Paradise: Racing in Los Angeles / Jeremy R. Kinney
  • 6. Professional Football in the City of Angels: The Game Moves West / Raymond Schmidt
  • 7. The 1932 Olympics: Spectacle and Growth in Interwar Los Angeles / Sean Dinces
  • 8. "Never Go Back": Pasadena Racial Politics and the Robinson Brothers / Gregory Kaliss
  • 9. Reel Sports: Hollywood Stars at Play in LA / Daniel A. Nathan
  • 10. Behind the Curtain: Leadership, Ingenuity, and Culture in the Making of Earvin "Magic" Johnson, Showtime, and the Laker Dynasty / Scott N. Brooks
  • 11. The Golden Games: The 1984 Los Angeles Olympics / Matthew P. Llewellyn, Toby C. Rider, and John Gleaves
  • 12. Shaping the Boom: Los Angeles Surfing from George Freeth to Gidget / Tolga Ozyurtcu
  • 13. The Halcyon Days of Muscle Beach: An Origin Story / Jan Todd
  • 14. I Was Standing There All the While: Jim Murray and the Birth of a Sports Mecca / Ted Geltner
  • 15. Vin Scully: The Voice of Los Angeles / Elliott J. Gorn and Allison Lauterbach Dale
  • Notes
  • Contributors
  • Index.

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