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About this book
Seattle Sports: Play, Identity, and Pursuit in the Emerald City, edited by Terry Anne Scott, explores the vast and varied history of sports in this city where diversity and social progress are reflected in and reinforced by play. The work gathered here covers Seattle's professional sports culture as well as many of the city's lesser-known figures and sports milestones. Fresh, nuanced takes on the Seattle Mariners, Supersonics, and Seahawks are joined by essays on gay softball leagues, city court basketball, athletics in local Japanese American communities during the interwar years, ultimate, the fierce women of roller derby, and much more. Together, these essays create a vivid portrait of Seattle fans, who, in supporting their teams—often in rain, sometimes in the midst of seismic activity—check the country's implicit racial bias by rallying behind outspoken local sporting heroes.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Series Editor’s Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Winless in Seattle: A History of the Seattle Mariners, 1977–1994
- 2. Inconceivable Victors: Lenny Wilkens and the 1978–1979 Seattle SuperSonics
- 3. Play/Gay Ball! The Emerald City Softball Association and the Making of Community
- 4. “Is Seattle in Alaska?”: My Life on the City’s Courts and the Centrality of Seattle Basketball in the Creation of Modern Legends
- 5. “That Splendid Medium of Free Play”: Japanese American Sports in Seattle during the Interwar Years
- 6. Seattle’s Rat City Roller Derby: Making Strides and Pushing Boundaries
- 7. Ultimate: Seattle’s Greatest Export
- 8. Helene Madison, Aquatics Queen: Seattle’s First Sport Hero
- 9. More Than Just an Athlete: Race, Identity, and the Seattle Seahawks
- 10. The First American Hockey Town: Seattle’s Place in the Margins of Hockey History
- Notes
- Contributors
- Index