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Cover
Title Page
Contents
Introduction: January 1, 2020
One: 2017 Little Caesar’s Arena Opens. Parking Lots Proliferate.
Two: 2012 The Tigers Flounder. The City Heads to Bankruptcy.
Three: 2008 The Lions Go 0–16. The Recession Hits.
Four: 2004 Malice at the Palace. Detroit vs Its Image.
Five: 1999 The Last Tigers Game at the Corner. The Lions Come Home.
Six: 1995 The Russian Five Take Over. Detroit and the Border.
Seven: 1988 Game Six of the NBA Finals. Rise of the Bad Boys.
Eight: 1985 Defeat of the Motor City Cobra. The Legend of the Kronk Gym.
Nine: 1982 Formula One Comes to Detroit. The Big Three Falter.
Ten: 1977 The Red Wings Stay, the Pistons Leave.
Eleven: 1970 The Lions Almost Make It. The RenCen Goes Up.
Twelve: 1968 Can a World Series Heal a Grievously Wounded City?
Thirteen: 1963: Detroit Loses Bid for Olympic Games. Again.
Fourteen: 1957 Detroit’s Third NFL Title. Ford’s Edsel Sputters.
Fifteen: 1952 Red Wings Sweep the Stanley Cup. Bitter Defeat for the Players Union.
Sixteen: 1951 Joe Louis’s Last Fight. The Small Gains of the War Evaporate.
Seventeen: 1949 Fred Matthaei’s Doomed Quest for the Olympics.
Eighteen: 1945 Tigers Triumph. Rosie the Riveter and the Women’s League.
Nineteen: 1943 LaMotta Takes Down Sugar Ray. Riots Tear Up the City.
Twenty: 1938 Joe Louis Demolishes Hitler’s Boxer. White Supremacy Thrives.
Twenty-One: 1936 In the Throes of Depression, the City of Champions Earns Its Name.
Twenty-Two: 1933 Hunger, Horseraces, Booze, and Blood.
Twenty-Three: 1930 The Negro League and Detroit’s Polish Community.
Twenty-Four: 1927 Ty Cobb Returns. How Awful Was Ty Cobb?.
Twenty-Five: 1921 The Havoc of the Automobile Age. Ford and Public Health.
Twenty-Six: 1910 Ty Cobb Wins the Chalmers Batting Race—But Did He Really?
Twenty-Seven: 1901 Henry Ford: Champion Racer, Tycoon, Antisemite.
Twenty-Eight: 1887 Wolverines Celebrate World Series Victory. Pingree Fools His Rich Backers.
Twenty-Nine: 1859 A New Sport Rises. Hate Erupts on the Eve of the Civil War.
Thirty: 1763 Lacrosse as Resistance: British Colonizers Fall into a Trap.
Epilogue: August 1, 2032
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
Copyright
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