TY  - BOOK
TI  - San Francisco Bay Area sports: golden gate athletics, recreation, and community 
T2  - Sport, culture & society
SN  - 9781610756037
AV  - GV707 
U1  - 796.0794 23
PY  - 2017///]
CY  - Fayetteville, AK
PB  - University of Arkansas Press
KW  - GAMES
KW  - Gambling
KW  - Sports
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - SPORTS & RECREATION
KW  - Business Aspects
KW  - Essays
KW  - History
KW  - Reference
KW  - TRAVEL
KW  - Special Interest
KW  - California
KW  - San Francisco Bay Area
KW  - San Francisco Bay Area (Calif.)
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Series Editor's Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction --; 1. Oakland's nineteenth-century parks and resorts: "Lungs of the City," commercial sporting venues, and instruments of civic boosterism; Deane Anderson Lamont; 2. Boosterism, boxing, and the battle for the bay: the Jeffries-Johnson fight in the Bay Area; Louis Moore; 3. Reforming the big game: the Bay Area rugby experiment of 1906-1919; Brian M. Ingrassia; 4. Bay to Breakers: the original fun run; Claire M. Williams; 5. Protecting the people's mountain: hiking in Marin County and the roots of American environmentalism; Linda L. Ivey; 6. All in the same boat: Ky Ebright, masculinity, and Cal crew in the 1920s; Adam Fitch; 7. Off the bench: Asian Americans and sport in the Santa Clara Valley during the mid-twentieth century; Joel S. Franks; 8. San Francisco 49ers: the romance of memory; Jeffrey Montez de Oca; 9. Pioneers in the pool: the Santa Clara swim club mermaids of the 1950s and 1960s; Maureen M. Smith and Matthew R. Hodler; 10. A friendly competition: the 1962 US-USSR track meet at the farm; Chris Elzey; 11. "Skate Fast, Hit Hard": San Francisco Bay Bombers and Bay Area Roller Derby; Beth Cavalier; 12. Sons of Oakland: the Raiders and the raz/rais(ing) of a city; Maria J. Veri; 13. Rebel with a racket: Rosie Casals; Rita Liberti; 14. The early gay games: The Bay Area years; Judy Davidson; 15. The Larry Krueger incident: sports-talk radio and the consequences of imagery; Samuel O. Regalado; Notes ; Contributors ; Index
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