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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

San Francisco Bay Area Sports: Golden Gate Athletics, Recreation, and Community

San Francisco Bay Area Sports: Golden Gate Athletics, Recreation, and Community

Overview

San Francisco Bay Area Sports 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781610756037
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
Publication date: 03/15/2017
Series: Sport, Culture, and Society
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 500
File size: 7 MB

About the Author

Rita Liberti is a professor in the Department of Kinesiology and director of the Center for Sport and Social Justice on the California State University, East Bay campus in Hayward. Her primary area of expertise is women’s twentieth-century sport history.

Maureen M. Smith is a professor in the Department of Kinesiology and Health Science at California State University, Sacramento. She teaches courses in sport history and sport sociology. Her research areas include twentieth-century African American sport history, the Olympic Games, and sport statues.

Table of Contents

Contents 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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