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Sports -- California -- Los Angeles -- Sociological aspects -- History.
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Descript |
1 online resource |
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text txt |
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computer c |
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online resource cr |
Note |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed December 1, 2017). |
Contents |
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. |
Alt author |
Wilson, Wayne, 1950- editor.
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Wiggins, David Kenneth, 1951- editor.
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ISBN |
9781610756297 (electronic bk.) |
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1610756290 (electronic bk.) |
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9781682260524 |
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1682260526 |
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