Loserville : how professional sports remade Atlanta-and how Atlanta remade professional sports /
Trutor, Clayton,
Loserville : how professional sports remade Atlanta-and how Atlanta remade professional sports / Clayton Trutor. - 1 online resource (495 pages)
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographies and index.
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Forward Atlanta -- 2. America's Virgin Sports Territory -- 3. Franchise Free Agency -- 4. The Greatest Location in the World -- 5. Wisconsin volume Milwaukee Braves -- 6. Gravitating toward Atlanta -- 7. Not Catching On around Town -- 8. Losing but Improving -- 9. Atlanta Stadium, a Center of Gravity -- 10. Outside the Stadium It's the City -- 11. Atlanta Stadium, a Meeting Place -- 12. Madison Square Garden of the Southeast -- 13. The Developer Is Boss 14. The Politics of Metropolitan Divergence -- 15. Probably Room for Basketball -- 16. The Logical Choice -- 17. How the Falcons Lost Atlanta -- 18. Atlanta's Ice Society -- 19. Just What Atlanta Needs -- 20. I Think the Fans Showed Poor Taste -- 21. Instant City -- 22. Keep Hockey a Southern Sport -- 23. Loserville No More -- 24. How the Sunbelt Became Loserville, U.S.A. -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Clayton Trutor examines how Atlanta's pursuit of the big leagues invented business-as-usual in the business of professional sports.
9781496230096
Professional sports--History--Georgia--Atlanta--20th century.
Sports franchises--History--Georgia--Atlanta--20th century.
Electronic Books.
GV584 / .L674 2021
Loserville : how professional sports remade Atlanta-and how Atlanta remade professional sports / Clayton Trutor. - 1 online resource (495 pages)
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographies and index.
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Forward Atlanta -- 2. America's Virgin Sports Territory -- 3. Franchise Free Agency -- 4. The Greatest Location in the World -- 5. Wisconsin volume Milwaukee Braves -- 6. Gravitating toward Atlanta -- 7. Not Catching On around Town -- 8. Losing but Improving -- 9. Atlanta Stadium, a Center of Gravity -- 10. Outside the Stadium It's the City -- 11. Atlanta Stadium, a Meeting Place -- 12. Madison Square Garden of the Southeast -- 13. The Developer Is Boss 14. The Politics of Metropolitan Divergence -- 15. Probably Room for Basketball -- 16. The Logical Choice -- 17. How the Falcons Lost Atlanta -- 18. Atlanta's Ice Society -- 19. Just What Atlanta Needs -- 20. I Think the Fans Showed Poor Taste -- 21. Instant City -- 22. Keep Hockey a Southern Sport -- 23. Loserville No More -- 24. How the Sunbelt Became Loserville, U.S.A. -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Clayton Trutor examines how Atlanta's pursuit of the big leagues invented business-as-usual in the business of professional sports.
9781496230096
Professional sports--History--Georgia--Atlanta--20th century.
Sports franchises--History--Georgia--Atlanta--20th century.
Electronic Books.
GV584 / .L674 2021