Rooting for the Home Team Rebecca Hurst Caroline von Heydebrand

Caroline von Heydebrand

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Rooting for the Home Team Rebecca Hurst Caroline von HeydebrandRooting for the Home Team examines how various American communities create and maintain a sense of collective identity through sports. Looking at large cities such as Chicago, Baltimore, and Los Angeles as well as small rural towns, suburbs, and college towns, the contributors consider the idea that rooting for local athletes and home teams often symbolizes a community's preferred understanding of itself, and that doing so is an expression of