Twin Cities Sports: Games for All Seasons (Sport, Culture, and Society)

Twin Cities Sports: Games for All Seasons (Sport, Culture, and Society)

Sheldon Anderson (Editor)
$32.95
Publication Date: February 3rd, 2020
Publisher:
University of Arkansas Press
ISBN:
9781682261095
Pages:
260

Description

The histories in Twin Cities Sports are rooted in the class, ethnic, and regional identity of this unique upper midwestern metropolitan area. The compilation includes a wide range of important studies on the hub of interwar speedskating, the success of Gopher football in the Jim Crow era, the integration of municipal golf courses, the building of a world-renowned park system, the Minneapolis Lakers’ basketball dynasty, the Minnesota Twins’ connections to Cuba, and more.
 

About the Author

Sheldon Anderson is professor of history at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, where he teaches modern European and sports history. He is the author of The Politics and Culture of Modern Sports.

Praise for Twin Cities Sports: Games for All Seasons (Sport, Culture, and Society)

“Twin Cities Sports constitutes something like a civic biography of athletics for a metropolis that is often described as the ‘most underrated city in America.’ Eschewing hype and boosterism, Sheldon Anderson has produced an admirable, entertaining anthology consistent with the unassuming, candid ethos of the Land of 10,000 Lakes.”
—Daniel A. Nathan, former president of the North American Society for Sport History
 

“Well documented and smartly argued, these essays demonstrate the Twin Cities’ compelling history with sports. Sheldon Anderson has succeeded in bringing together essays that express a unique Minnesota connection. A fine resource for history buffs as well as sports fans.”
—Chris Elzey, coeditor of DC Sports: the Nation's Capital at Play

“In Twin Cities Sports, editor Sheldon Anderson has collected a unique and thorough set of articles that provide a strong sense of how residents of the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul have used and continue to use sports at all levels to shape their community identities across cultural, ethnic, political, or class-based associations. … Twin Cities Sports serves as a thoughtful, readable compendium of historical sporting information in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area. Moreover, the unifying thread between all thirteen articles is the way sports and community identity have engaged in a constant process of influence over each other, shaping not only the built environment but community, class, and racial identities.”
—Peter Lund, Journal of Sport History, Spring 2021

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