Michael Orr

Michael A. Orr is a researcher and writer based in Milwaukie, Oregon. He is the author of The 1975 Portland Timbers: The Birth of Soccer City, USA (2012) and Building Portland's Memorial Coliseum: a Mid-Century Political Firestorm (2026), and has written extensively on sports, stadiums, and their impacts on politics and history since arriving in Portland in 2009.