La Sports: Play, Games, and Community in the City of Angels

ISBN-13: 9781682260524 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 376 str.

Wayne Wilson; David K. Wiggins

Opis

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 venues, the power of the Mexican fan base in American soccer leagues, and the importance of the Showtime Lakers.

Spis treści

• Introduction
• “I Love LA”: The Sporting Culture of Los Angeles
• 1. The Life Cycles of Sports Venues in Los Angeles: Sports and Local Economic Development
• 2. On Los Chorizeros, the Classic, and El Tri: Sports and Community in Mexican Los Angeles
• 3. Pitches Less Than Perfect: Notes on the Landscape of Soccer in Los Angeles
• 4. Figure Skating in Southern California: From Frontier to Epicenter
• 5. Sports Car Paradise: Racing in Los Angeles
• 6. Professional Football in the City of Angels: The Game Moves West
• 7. The 1932 Olympics: Spectacle and Growth in Interwar Los Angeles
• 8. “Never Go Back”: Pasadena Racial Politics and the Robinson Brothers
• 9. Reel Sports: Hollywood Stars at Play in LA
• 10. Behind the Curtain: Leadership, Ingenuity, and Culture in the Making of Earvin “Magic” Johnson, Showtime, and the Laker Dynasty
• 11. The Golden Games: The 1984 Los Angeles Olympics
• 12. Shaping the Boom: Los Angeles Surfing from George Freeth to Gidget
• 13. The Halcyon Days of Muscle Beach: An Origin Story
• 14. I Was Standing There All the While: Jim Murray and the Birth of a Sports Mecca
• 15. Vin Scully: The Voice of Los Angeles