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Seattle Sports: Play, Identity, and Pursuit in the Emerald City (Sport, Culture, and Society)

Seattle Sports: Play, Identity, and Pursuit in the Emerald City (Sport, Culture, and Society)

Terry Anne Scott (Editor)
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Publication Date: August 17th, 2020
Publisher:
University of Arkansas Press
ISBN:
9781682261354
Pages:
298

Description

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.

About the Author

Terry Anne Scott is associate professor of American History and director of African American Studies at Hood College.

Praise for Seattle Sports: Play, Identity, and Pursuit in the Emerald City (Sport, Culture, and Society)

“From coverage on the Mariners and Supersonics, to lesser-known stories from playgrounds and ball fields buried deep in Seattle’s neighborhoods, this book sparkles with insights about the Emerald City. A fun and lively must-read.”

—Ryan Swanson, author of The Strenuous Life: Theodore Roosevelt and the Making of the American Athlete

“Seattle Sports, edited by Terry Anne Scott, is a welcome addition to the Sports, Culture, and Society series edited by David Wiggins for the University of Arkansas Press. As Wiggins notes in the preface, the series provides a forum for ‘a variety of disciplinary areas and methodological approaches’. Based on these criteria, Seattle Sports hits a home run. Of the book’s ten authors, only four are traditional academics, while the remainder are former athletes or simply fans of the sports they write about. All the essays are clearly written and accessible. While some academic sports historians may wish for more historiographical context in some of the essays, others will find the mix of academic and nonacademic essays refreshing.”
—Thomas Clark, Journal of Sport History, Summer 2021

“In Seattle Sports: Play, Identity, and Pursuit in the Emerald City, Terry Anne Scott has assembled a wide-ranging and insightful collection of pieces that offer an overview of the intersection of athletic activity and urban life in Seattle. … Rather than seeking to recast, rewrite, or otherwise transform our understanding of how urban life and sporting culture interact, Scott’s volume manages to be local without being parochial. The result is an anthology that will find a ready readership among residents of the Pacific Northwest, scholars of the Seattle metropolitan area, and, in case of the volume’s strongest contributions, general scholars of sport history.”
—Daniel Widener, Pacific Northwest Quarterly, Winter 21/22

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