Chris Elzey,David K. Wiggins's DC Sports: The Nation's Capital at Play (Sport, Culture, and PDF

By Chris Elzey,David K. Wiggins

ISBN-10: 1557286779

ISBN-13: 9781557286772

Washington, DC, is better recognized for its politics and monuments, yet activity has consistently been a vital part of town, and Washingtonians are one of the country’s such a lot avid activities lovers. DC Sports gathers seventeen essays studying the heritage of activity within the nation’s capital, from turn-of-the-century venues equivalent to the White Lot, Griffith Stadium, and DC Memorial Stadium to Howard-Lincoln Thanksgiving Day soccer video games of the roaring twenties; from the superb season of the 1969 Washington Senators to the good fortune of Georgetown basketball through the Eighties. This assortment covers the sphere, together with public activity, high-school athletics, intercollegiate athletics, expert activities, activities journalism, and activities promotion.

A southern urban at middle, Washington drew a powerful colour line in each side of people’s lives. Race proficient how activity used to be performed, written approximately, and watched within the urban. In 1962, the Redskins turned the ultimate nationwide soccer League group to combine. that very same 12 months, a race rebel marred the city’s high-school championship online game in soccer. A iteration later, race as a topic resurfaced after Georgetown’s African American head trainer John Thompson Jr. led the Hoyas to nationwide prominence in basketball.

DC Sports takes a troublesome examine how activities in a single urban has formed tradition and heritage, and the way tradition and historical past tell activities. This informative and fascinating assortment will attract fanatics and scholars of activities and people attracted to the wealthy historical past of the nation’s capital.

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