Rethinking Fandom: How to Beat the Sports-Industrial Complex at Its Own Game
Calcaterra, Craig
ISBN 10: 1953368239 ISBN 13: 9781953368232
Editore: Belt Publishing, 2022
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A fundamental reevaluation of how to be a sports fan by an acclaimed baseball writer.
Sports fandom isn’t what it used to be. Owners and executives increasingly count on the blind loyalty of their fans and too often act against the team’s best interest. Sports fans are left deliberating not only mismanagement, but also political, health, and ethical issues.
In Rethinking Fandom: How To Beat The Sports Industrial Complex at Its Own Game, sportswriter (and lifelong sports fan) Craig Calcaterra outlines endemic problems with what he calls the Sports-Industrial Complex, such as intentionally tanking a season to get a high draft pick, scamming local governments to build cushy new stadiums, actively subverting the players, bad stadium deals, racism, concussions, and more. But he doesn’t give up on professional sports. In the second half of the book, he proposes strategies to reclaim joy in fandom: rooting for players instead of teams, being a fair-weather fan, becoming an activist, and other clever solutions.
With his characteristic wit and piercing commentary, Calcaterra argues that fans have more power than they realize to change how their teams behave.
Informazioni sull?autore: Craig Calcaterra is the writer and editor of the daily baseball, news, and culture newsletter, Cup of Coffee. Previously, he was the lead national baseball writer for NBC Sports, where he launched and edited the baseball blog HardballTalk. Calcaterra’s work has appeared on NPR, Bloomberg News, BBC, and ESPN. He lives in New Albany, Ohio.
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Titolo: Rethinking Fandom: How to Beat the ...
Casa editrice: Belt Publishing
Data di pubblicazione: 2022
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