Rooting for the Home Team Rebecca Hurst This volume covers many important

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Rooting for the Home Team Rebecca Hurst This volume covers many importantRooting 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