Faithful to Fenway

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ISBN: 9780814799772 | 0814799779
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 4/1/2008

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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 America's oldest major league ballpark still in use.

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Acknowledgments	p. vii
Introduction: The Sociology of Green Monsters and Broken Curses	p. 1
Boston Believes: Fenway Park, a "Lyrical Little Bandbox"	p. 13
The Birth of an Urban Ballpark: Leisure, Nostalgia, and the Baseball Creed	p. 33
The Ballpark at Rest: The Civic Partnership between Boston, the Red Sox, and the Fenway Faithful	p. 67
Objects of Faith and Consumption: Souvenirs, Replicas, and Other Representations of Fenway Park	p. 107
Some Diamonds are not Forever: Debating the Future of Fenway Park	p. 133
Believe in Boston: Red Sox Nation and the Cultural Power of Place	p. 179
Making the Familiar Strange: Urban Sociology at the Ballpark	p. 197
Notes	p. 215
Bibliography	p. 245
Index	p. 257
About the Author	p. 263
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