San Francisco Bay Area sports
Subtitle: golden gate athletics, recreation, and community
By: edited by Rita Liverti and Maureen M. Smith
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 354
ISBN-13: 9781682260203
Subjects: Sports; History
Description: Brings together fifteen essays covering the issues, controversies, and personalities that have emerged as northern Californians recreated and competed over the last 150 years. The area's diversity, anti-establishment leanings, and unique and beautiful natural surroundings are explored in the context of a dynamic sporting past that includes events broadcast to millions or activities engaged in by just a few. Professional and college events are covered along with lesser-known entities such as Oakland's public parks, tennis player and Bay Area native Rosie Casals, environmentalism and hiking in Marin County, and the origins of the Gay Games. Taken as a whole, this book clarifies how sport is connected to identities based on sexuality, gender, race, and ethnicity. Just as crucial, the stories here illuminate how sport and recreation can potentially create transgressive spaces, particularity in a place known for its nonconformity. --
Table of contents: title: Series Editor's Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; title: 1. Oakland's nineteenth-century parks and resorts: "Lungs of the City," commercial sporting venues, and instruments of civic boosterism  -- Deane Anderson Lamont ;; title: 2. Boosterism, boxing, and the battle for the bay: the Jeffries-Johnson fight in the Bay Area  -- Louis Moore ;; title: 3. Reforming the big game: the Bay Area rugby experiment of 1906-1919  -- Brian M. Ingrassia ;; title: 4. Bay to Breakers: the original fun run  -- Claire M. Williams ;; title: 5. Protecting the people's mountain: hiking in Marin County and the roots of American environmentalism  -- Linda L. Ivey ;; title: 6. All in the same boat: Ky Ebright, masculinity, and Cal crew in the 1920s  -- Adam Fitch ;; title: 7. Off the bench: Asian Americans and sport in the Santa Clara Valley during the mid-twentieth century  -- Joel S. Franks ;; title: 8. San Francisco 49ers: the romance of memory  -- Jeffrey Montez de Oca ;; title: 9. Pioneers in the pool: the Santa Clara swim club mermaids of the 1950s and 1960s  -- Maureen M. Smith and Matthew R. Hodler ;; title: 10. A friendly competition: the 1962 US-USSR track meet at the farm  -- Chris Elzey ;; title: 11. "Skate Fast, Hit Hard": San Francisco Bay Bombers and Bay Area Roller Derby  -- Beth Cavalier ;; title: 12. Sons of Oakland: the Raiders and the raz/rais(ing) of a city  -- Maria J. Veri ;; title: 13. Rebel with a racket: Rosie Casals  -- Rita Liberti ;; title: 14. The early gay games: the Bay Area years  -- Judy Davidson ;; title: 15. The Larry Krueger incident: sports-talk radio and the consequences of imagery -- Samuel O. Regalado ;-- Notes ; Contributors ; Index.