Faithful to Fenway : Believing in Boston, Baseball, and America's Most Beloved Ballpark.

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Read the review at MLB.com. The Green Monster. Pesky's Pole. The Lone Red Seat. Yawkey Way. To baseball fans this list of bizarre phrases evokes only one place: Fenway Park, home of the Boston Red Sox. Built in 1912, Fenway Park is Americas oldest major league ballpark still in use. In Faithful...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Borer, Michael Ian
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : NYU Press, 2008.
Temas:
Fenway Park (Boston, Mass.)
Boston Red Sox (Baseball team)
Baseball > Social aspects > Massachusetts > Boston.
Base-ball > Aspect social > Massachusetts > Boston.
SPORTS & RECREATION > Baseball > General.
Baseball > Social aspects
Massachusetts > Boston
Faithful.
Fenway.
Full.
Take.
amusing.
anecdotes.
ballpark.
fans.
investigates.
legendary.
mystique.
shared.
stories.
their.
tragedy.
triumph.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Acknowledgments; INTRODUCTION: The Sociology of Green Monsters and Broken Curses; 1 BOSTON BELIEVES: Fenway Park, a "Lyrical Little Bandbox"; 2 THE BIRTH OF AN URBAN BALLPARK: Leisure, Nostalgia, and the Baseball Creed; 3 THE BALLPARK AT REST: The Civic Partnership between Boston, the Red Sox, and the Fenway Faithful; 4 OBJECTS OF FAITH AND CONSUMPTION: Souvenirs, Replicas, and Other Representations of Fenway Park; 5 SOME DIAMONDS ARE NOT FOREVER: Debating the Future of Fenway Park; 6 BELIEVE IN BOSTON: Red Sox Nation and the Cultural Power of Place.
  • APPENDIX: Making the Familiar Strange: Urban Sociology at the BallparkNotes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z; About the Author.

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