Faithful to Fenway : Believing in Boston, Baseball, and America's Most Beloved Ballpark / Michael Ian Borer.
2008
GV867.64 .B67 2008
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Faithful to Fenway : Believing in Boston, Baseball, and America's Most Beloved Ballpark / Michael Ian Borer.
Author
Borer, Michael Ian, author.
ISBN
9780814789933
Published
New York, NY : New York University Press, [2008]
Copyright
©2008
Language
English
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In English.
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1 online resource
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10.18574/nyu/9780814789933.001.0001 doi
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GV867.64 .B67 2008
Dewey Decimal Classification
796.357/640974461
Summary
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.
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Table of Contents
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
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