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More Than a Pastime - An Oral History of Baseball Fans (Paperback)
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More Than a Pastime - An Oral History of Baseball Fans (Paperback)
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Basing his claims on more than 130 in-depth interviews with
baseball fans from ages 10 to 80, the author arrives at some
extraordinary conclusions about the prismatic richness of the fan's
experience of baseball and its importance in his or her life. The
responses, 40 of which are reproduced in this oral history, suggest
three major hypotheses: that how the youthful fan regards the game
is a resonant expression of his personality, his family and social
situation, and his fundamental needs; that baseball, far more than
a pastime or idle entertainment, serves a number of extremely
important emotional and developmental functions - moral, social,
aesthetic and psychological - in the lives of its younger fans; and
that one of baseball's less frequently heralded virtues is its
extraordinary richness, its capacity to turn a different face to
almost every fan and to satisfy that remarkably wide range of
personalities, backgrounds and needs. What these interviews suggest
and what the author's introductory sections argue is that to its
most ardent young fans, baseball is not only a source of great and
lasting pleasure, but an important socialising agent and a vital
expression and determinant of character.
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