Contents
Series Editor’s Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction. “I Love LA”: The Sporting Culture of Los Angeles / Mark Dyreson
1. The Life Cycles of Sports Venues in Los Angeles: Sports and Local Economic Development / Greg Andranovich and Matthew J. Burbank
2. On Los Chorizeros, the Classic, and El Tri: Sports and Community in Mexican Los Angeles / Luis Alvarez
3. Pitches Less Than Perfect: Notes on the Landscape of Soccer in Los Angeles / Jennifer Doyle
4. Figure Skating in Southern California: From Frontier to Epicenter / Susan Brownell
5. Sports Car Paradise: Racing in Los Angeles / Jeremy R. Kinney
6. Professional Football in the City of Angels: The Game Moves West / Raymond Schmidt
7. The 1932 Olympics: Spectacle and Growth in Interwar Los Angeles / Sean Dinces
8. “Never Go Back”: Pasadena Racial Politics and the Robinson Brothers / Gregory Kaliss
9. Reel Sports: Hollywood Stars at Play in LA / Daniel A. Nathan
10. Behind the Curtain: Leadership, Ingenuity, and Culture in the Making of Earvin “Magic” Johnson, Showtime, and the Laker Dynasty / Scott N. Brooks
11. The Golden Games: The 1984 Los Angeles Olympics / Matthew P. Llewellyn, Toby C. Rider, and John Gleaves
12. Shaping the Boom: Los Angeles Surfing from George Freeth to Gidget / Tolga Ozyurtcu
13. The Halcyon Days of Muscle Beach: An Origin Story / Jan Todd
14. I Was Standing There All the While: Jim Murray and the Birth of a Sports Mecca / Ted Geltner
15. Vin Scully: The Voice of Los Angeles / Elliott J. Gorn and Allison Lauterbach Dale
Notes
Contributors
Index