Rooting for the Home Team: Sport, Community, and Identity

by Daniel A. Nathan

Book Overview

Rooting for the Home Team examines how various American communities create and maintain a sense of collective identity through sports. Looking at large cities such as Chicago, Baltimore, and Los Angeles as well as small rural towns, suburbs, and college towns, the contributors consider the idea that rooting for local athletes and home teams often symbolizes a community's preferred understanding of itself, and that doing so is an expression of connectedness,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252079140
• ISBN13: 9780252079146
• Release Date: May 2013
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.1"