Baltimore sports
Subtitle: stories from Charm City
By: edited by Daniel A. Nathan
Series: Sport, culture & society; Sport, culture & society (University of Arkansas Press)
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Fayetteville
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781610755917; 9781682260050
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Sports; Athletes; GAMES; Gambling; SPORTS & RECREATION; Business Aspects; Essays; History; Reference; TRAVEL; Special Interest
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Series Editor's Preface; title: Acknowledgments; title: Introduction; title: 1. Till Death Do Us Part: The Grand Tour of Baltimore's Graveyard Greats / David Zang; title: 2. Jockeying for Position: The Preakness Stakes, Pimlico, and Baltimore / Ari de Wilde; title: 3. Black Knights and Engineers: The City-Poly Football Rivalry / Dean Bartoli Smith and Ted Patterson; title: 4. "For a White Boy's Chance in the World": Joe Gans, Baltimore's Forgotten Fighter / William Gildea; title: 5. On the Courts of Druid Hill: Lucy Diggs Slowe and the Rise of Organized Black Tennis / Amira Rose Davis; title: 6. Sweat Equity: Physical Education at The Bryn Mawr School for Girls / Elizabeth M. Nix; title: 7. "More Than a Century of Champions": Johns Hopkins University Lacrosse / Neil A. Grauer; title: 8. The Bears of Baltimore: Morgan State University Intercollegiate Athletics / Jerry Bembry; title: 9. The Team That Made Baltimore Proud: The Baltimore Bullets and the 1947-1948 Championship Season / Chris Elzey; title: 10. Toots Barger: Queen of Duckpins / Stacy Karten; title: 11. "The Best Ambassador Baltimore Ever Had": Art Donovan and the Colts / Michael Olesker; title: 12. Sam Lacy and John Steadman: Empathy and a Conscience on the Sports Pages / Dennis Gildea; title: 13. Baltimore's Bard of Baseball: Jim Bready Remembers the O's of Old / Rafael Alvarez; title: 14. Black Sport and Baltimore: Spats, the Judge, and the Pearl / James Coates, Hannah Doban, and Nevon Kipperman; title: 15. Orange and Black Forever: How a New Yorker Fell in Love with Earl Weaver's Baltimore Orioles / Lee Lowenfish; title: 16. A Missed Opportunity: Baltimore's Failed Stadium Project, 1969-1974 / Richard Hardesty; title: 17. The Greatest High School Basketball Team Ever: The Dunbar Poets, 1981-1982 and 1982-1983 / Chad Carlson; title: 18. Baltimore Baseball Icons: The Babe, Mr. Oriole, the Iron Man, and the Forgotten Day / Daniel A. Nathan.; title: 19. The Ravens' Flight to Normalcy: How Winning Restored Baltimore's Football Culture / Charles Kupfer; title: 20. A Phelpsian Triptych: Mountain, Machine, and Man / Dean Bartoli Smith; title: Notes; title: Contributors; title: Index.