Contents
Series Editor’s Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. The Extraordinary History of Cycling and Bike Racing in Washington, DC
2. Less Than Monumental
3. The Biggest “Classic” of Them All
4. Teeing Off against Jim Crow
5. Shirley Povich and the Tee Shot That Helped Launch DC Sportswriting
6. Between the Lines
7. Exercising Civil Rights
8. “The Greatest High School Basketball Game Ever Played”
9. Whips, Darts, and Dips
10. Uniting a Divided City
11. George Allen, Richard Nixon, and the Washington Redskins
12. A Little Big Man, a Fat Lady, and the Bullets’ Remarkable Season
13. Assuming “Its Place among the Ice Hockey Centers of the Nation”
14. “The People’s Race”
15. Georgetown Basketball in Reagan’s America
16. Washington Baseball Fans
17. Washington Sports Memories, Personal and Collective
Notes
Contributors
Index