[Peace] Re: [Peace-discuss] Sportswriter Dave Zirin comes to UIUC

[John W.]

It's probably no accident that the names "Zinn" and "Zirin" are so similar.


On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 2:30 PM, martin smith <send2smith at yahoo.com> wrote:

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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