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949499
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b703869
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Borer, Michael Ian.
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Faithful to Fenway : : Believing in Boston, Baseball, and America's Most Beloved Ballpark.
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: NYU Press,, 2008.
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1 online resource (275 pages)
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0814789935
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: 9780814789933
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0814799760
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0814799779
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9780814799765
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9780814799772
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-256) and index.
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| Contents
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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.
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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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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 to Fenway, Michael Ian Borer takes us out to Fenway where we sit in cramped wooden seats (often with obstructed views of the playing field), where there is a hand-operated scoreboard and an average attendance of 20,000 fewer fans than most stadiums, and where every game has been sold out since May of 2.
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Boston Red Sox (Baseball team)
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Fenway Park (Boston, Mass.)
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Boston Red Sox (Baseball team)
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Fenway Park (Boston, Mass.)
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Baseball-- Social aspects-- Massachusetts-- Boston.
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Baseball-- Social aspects.
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SPORTS RECREATION-- Baseball-- General.
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Massachusetts, Boston.
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| Dewey Classification
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796.357/640974461
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GV867.64 .B67 2008
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