Rooting for the Home Team examines how various American communities create and maintain a sense of collective identity through sports. Looking at large cities s

America's love of sports goes back a long way. Baseball, basketball, and football all came of age in America of the 1800s. While men like Abner Doubleday may no

Most books that study professional sports concentrate on teams and leagues. In contrast, Home Team studies the connections between professional team sports in N

Delve deep into to the grass roots of baseballs—the Minor League—and you’ll find Cannibals, Shoemakers, and Zephyrs! From the Coal Sox Nation to the Texar

A blistering critique of the gulf between America's soldiers and the society that sends them off to war. As war has become normalized, armed conflict has become