Clayton Trutor

Loserville

How Professional Sports Remade Atlanta--And How Atlanta Remade Professional Sports

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Clayton Trutor examines how Atlanta’s pursuit of the big leagues invented business-as-usual in the business of professional sports.  

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Univ of Nebraska Press
• Seitenzahl: 504
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 165mm x 41mm
• Gewicht: 862g
• ISBN-13: 9781496225047
• ISBN-10: 149622504X
• Artikelnr.: 61381520

Autorenporträt

Clayton Trutor holds a PhD in U.S. history from Boston College and teaches at Norwich University in Northfield, Vermont. He writes about college football and basketball for SB Nation. Trutor is also the Vermont state chairman of the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) and is a regular contributor to the SABR Biography Project.     

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Forward Atlanta
2. America’s Virgin Sports Territory
3. Franchise Free Agency
4. The Greatest Location in the World
5. Wisconsin v. Milwaukee Braves
6. Gravitating toward Atlanta
7. Not Catching On around Town
8. Losing but Improving
9. Atlanta Stadium, a Center of Gravity
10. Outside the Stadium It’s the City
11. Atlanta Stadium, a Meeting Place
12. Madison Square Garden of the Southeast
13. The Developer Is Boss
14. The Politics of Metropolitan Divergence
15. Probably Room for Basketball
16. The Logical Choice
17. How the Falcons Lost Atlanta
18. Atlanta’s Ice Society
19. Just What Atlanta Needs
20. I Think the Fans Showed Poor Taste
21. Instant City
22. Keep Hockey a Southern Sport
23. Loserville No More
24. How the Sunbelt Became Loserville, U.S.A.
Notes
Bibliography
Index