[Peace] Sportswriter Dave Zirin comes to UIUC

[martin smith]

Sportswriter Dave Zirin comes to UIUC: Mon., Oct. 6, 7pm, Greg 317
    
           
            
            
    
      
  
    Dave Zirin speaks on his new book:

A People's History of Sports in the United States

Monday, Oct. 6, at 7pm

Greg Hall 317, UIUC

A rollicking, rebellious, myth-busting history of sports in America that

puts politics in the ring with pop culture!

250 Years of Politics, Protest, People, and Play
 
About Dave Zirin and A People's History of Sports:

In this long-awaited book from the rising superstar of sportswriting,
whose blog "The Edge of Sports" is read each week by thousands of
people across the country, Dave Zirin offers a riotously entertaining
chronicle of larger-than-life sporting characters and dramatic contests
and what amounts to an alternative history of the United States as seen
through the games its people played. Through Zirin's eyes, sports are
never mere games, but a reflection of—and spur toward—the political
conflicts that shape American society.

Half a century before Jackie Robinson was born, the black ballplayer
Moses Fleetwood Walker brandished a revolver to keep racist fans at
bay, then took his regular place in the lineup. In the midst of the
Depression, when almost no black athletes were allowed on the U.S.
Olympic team, athletes held a Counter Olympics where a third of the
participants were African American.

A People's History of Sports in the United States is replete with
surprises for seasoned sports fans, while anyone interested in history
will be amazed by the connections Zirin draws between politics and pop
flies. As Jeff Chang, author of Can't Stop Won't Stop, puts it, "After
you read him, you'll never see sports the same way again."




      
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