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True believers : the tragic inner life of sports fans / Joe Queenan.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Queenan, Joe.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sports spectators--United States--Psychology.
- Sports spectators.
- Sports--Social aspects--United States.
- Sports.
- Sports--Social aspects.
- Psychology.
- United States.
- Queenan, Joe.
- Physical Description:
- 236 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : H. Holt, 2003.
- Summary:
- From True Believers: Virtually all sports books deal with athletes. In my view, athletes are almost irrelevant: they can be replaced. Sports is not about the people who play the games, but about the people who watch them. Athletes ultimately manage to work these neuroses out of their systems. Fans never do. Economists insist that every human action has some raison d'etre. True Believers is an attempt to find out what that raison d'etre is. There has to be some reason why we put ourselves through this year after year. Or, to paraphrase Darwin, man is the only species that honestly thinks the Cubs and the Red Sox could meet in the World Series.
- ISBN:
- 0805069798
- OCLC:
- 51264842
- Online:
- Publisher description
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