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San Francisco Bay Area sports : golden gate athletics, recreation, and community /

San Francisco Bay Area sports : golden gate athletics, recreation, and community / edited by Rita Liverti and Maureen M. Smith. - 1 online resource : illustrations. - Sport, culture & society . - Sport, culture & society (University of Arkansas Press) .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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

9781610756037 1610756037


GAMES--Gambling--Sports.
SPORTS & RECREATION--Business Aspects.
SPORTS & RECREATION--Essays.
SPORTS & RECREATION--History.
SPORTS & RECREATION--Reference.
TRAVEL--Special Interest--Sports.
Sports--History.--California--San Francisco Bay Area


San Francisco Bay Area (Calif.)--History.


Electronic books.

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