Twin Cities Sports : Games for All Seasons /
"Minneapolis and St. Paul sit on two sides of the upper Mississippi far away from any other major city. For over thirty years on his Minnesota Public Radio show humorist Garrison Keillor conjured up a distinct image of "Lake Wobegon" as a place of bland, cold, colorless Nordic samenes...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Fayetteville :
The University of Arkansas Press,
2020.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- From parks to recreation: the Minneapolis Parks System, 1880s-1920s / Shannon Murray
- Fairways open to all: a history of golf in the Twin Cities / Thomas B. Jones
- Aces on ice: the glory days of speed skating in the Twin Cities / David C. Smith
- The end of Jim Crow and the decline of Minnesota Gopher football / Sheldon Anderson
- From the Cedar-Riverside Marines to the Purple People Eaters: professional football in the Twin Cities / Dick Dahl
- Just for "kicks": the world's game comes to the Twin Cities / Tom Taylor
- "The state of basketball": Minnesota's storied hardcourt history / Sheldon Anderson and David C. Smith
- The Minneapolis Lakers: the first NBA dynasty / Stew Thornley
- Minnesota ice: the eleventh hockey province / David C. Smith and Sheldon Anderson
- From D.C. Follies to frostbite falls: Calvin Griffith and the Senators' move to Minnesota / Jon Kerr
- The Minnesota Twins, Tony Oliva, and the Cuban baseball players / Blair Williams
- Of "King Tuts" and "Kewpies": professional boxing in the Twin Cities / Scott Wright
- "How 'bout dat, you turkey necks!" The heyday of Twin Cities pro wrestling / Sheldon Anderson and Brad Lundell.