New Orleans sports : playing hard in the Big Easy /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Fayetteville :
The University of Arkansas Press,
2019.
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| Series: | Sport, culture & society (University of Arkansas Press)
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- A city on wheels: the bicycle era in New Orleans / Dale A. Somers
- "He's a good rider because of where he comes from": horseracing, slavery, and haunting / Katherine C. Mooney
- Fighting to the finish: the ill-fated Andy Bowen and the longest boxing match in history / Randy Roberts
- In the land of dreamy dreams: tennis and the nexus of class and race in New Orleans, 1876-1976 / Thomas Aiello
- The New Orleans Athletic Club: pantheon of sport and society on Rampart Street / Richard V. McGehee
- The development of Tulane Stadium: from rise to raze / Chad S. Seifried, Kasey Britt, Samantha Gonzales, and Alexa Webb
- New Orleans becomes a big league city: the NFL-AFL merger and the creation of the New Orleans Saints / Michael S. Martin
- Professional sports, Hurricane Katrina, and the economic redevelopment of New Orleans: revisited / Robert A. Baade, Victor A. Matheson, and Callan N. Hendershott
- The Sugar Bowl: manhood, race, and southern womanhood in New Orleans, 1935-1965 / Stephen H. Norwood
- "No room for such a club in our organization": the Southern Association of the Amateur Athletic Union's long fight for white supremacy in New Orleans and the South / Mark Dyreson
- Called off, on account of darkness: the AAU, the AFL, and civic development in Jim Crow New Orleans / Gregory L. Richard and Thomas Aiello
- 'In spite of ourselves' they were the pride of New Orleans: the role of race, gender, and the media in the demise of the Crescent City's women's professional basketball franchise, 1979-1981 / Stacy Lynn Tanner
- When the Saints went marching in: social identity in the world champion New Orleans Saints football team and its impact on their host city / Elizabeth Booksh Burns.