Home Team: Professional Sports and the American Metropolis

by Michael N. Danielson

Book Overview

Most books that study professional sports concentrate on teams and leagues. In contrast, Home Team studies the connections between professional team sports in North America and the places where teams play. It examines the relationships between the four major professional team sports--baseball, basketball, football, and hockey--and the cities that attach their names, their hearts, and their increasing amount of tax dollars to big league teams. From...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691036500
• ISBN13: 9780691036502
• Release Date: March 1997
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 397 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

The best overview of the sports industry and the politics of stadiums

"Michael Danielson has produced the most thorough and evenhanded analysis yet of the politics of sports and cities. He focuses on the way that sports teams foster and exploit a sense of 'place,' particularly in cities were dynamic economic growth or decline undermines a more organic and abiding civic identity." -- Charles Euchner, author of "Playing the Field," writing in The American Political Science Review, March 1998, p. 227.