Faithful to Fenway : : Believing in Boston, Baseball, and America’s Most Beloved Ballpark / / Michael Ian Borer.
Read the review at MLB.comThe 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 t...
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Borer, Michael Ian, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Faithful to Fenway : Believing in Boston, Baseball, and America’s Most Beloved Ballpark / Michael Ian Borer. New York, NY : New York University Press, [2008] ©2008 1 online resource text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. BOSTON BELIEVES -- 2. THE BIRTH OF AN URBAN BALLPARK -- 3. THE BALLPARK AT REST -- 4. OBJECTS OF FAITH AND CONSUMPTION -- 5. SOME DIAMONDS ARE NOT FOREVER -- 6. BELIEVE IN BOSTON -- APPENDIX -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Read the review at MLB.comThe 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 2003. There is no Hard Rock Café (like Toronto's Skydome), no swimming pool (like Arizona's Chase Field), and definitely no sushi (which has become a fan favorite from Baltimore to Seattle). As Borer tells us in this captivating book, Fenway is short on comfort but long on character.Faithful to Fenway investigates the mystique of the ballpark. Borer, who lived in Boston before and after the Red Sox historic 2004 World Series win, draws on interviews with Red Sox players, including Jason Varitek and Carl Yastrzemski, management, including Larry Lucchino and John Henry, groundskeepers, vendors, and scores of fans to uncover what the park means for Boston and the people who revere it. Borer argues that Fenway is nothing less than a national icon, more than worthy of the banner outside the stadium that proclaims, “America's Most Beloved Ballpark”. Certainly as one of New England's greatest landmarks, Fenway captures the hearts and imaginations of a deferential and devoted public. There are T-shirts, bumper stickers, banners, and snow globes that honor the ballpark. Fenway shows up in popular films, novels, television commercials, and in replicated form in people's backyards-and coming in 2008 to Quincy, Massachusetts, is Mini-Fenway Park, a replica stadium built especially for kids.Full of legendary stories, amusing anecdotes, and the shared triumph and tragedy of the Red Sox and their fans, Faithful to Fenway offers a fresh and insightful perspective, offering readers an unforgettable pilgrimage to the mecca of baseball. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Jun 2022) Baseball Social aspects Massachusetts Boston. SPORTS & RECREATION / Sociology of Sports. bisacsh Faithful. Fenway. Full. Take. amusing. anecdotes. ballpark. fans. investigates. legendary. mystique. shared. stories. their. tragedy. triumph. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 9783110706444 print 9780814799765 https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814789933.001.0001 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780814789933 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780814789933/original |
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. BOSTON BELIEVES -- 2. THE BIRTH OF AN URBAN BALLPARK -- 3. THE BALLPARK AT REST -- 4. OBJECTS OF FAITH AND CONSUMPTION -- 5. SOME DIAMONDS ARE NOT FOREVER -- 6. BELIEVE IN BOSTON -- APPENDIX -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR |
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