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Loserville : how professional sports remade Atlanta-and how Atlanta remade professional sports / Clayton Trutor.

By: Material type: TextTextDescription: 1 online resource (495 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781496230096
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • GV584 .L674 2021
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Contents:
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
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
Subject: Clayton Trutor examines how Atlanta's pursuit of the big leagues invented business-as-usual in the business of professional sports.
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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.

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