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Wrigley Regulars Holly Swyers

Wrigley Regulars By Holly Swyers

Wrigley Regulars by Holly Swyers


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A unique exploration of creating community in a fragmented world

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Wrigley Regulars: Finding Community in the Bleachers by Holly Swyers

Holly Swyers turns to the bleachers of Chicago's iconic Wrigley Field in this unique exploration of the ways people craft a feeling of community under almost any conditions. Wrigley Regulars examines various components of community through the lens of the regulars, a group of diehard Chicago Cubs fans who loyally populate the bleachers at Wrigley Field. In a time when many communities are perceived as either short-lived or disintegrating, the Wrigley regulars have formed their own thriving set of pregame rituals, ballpark traditions, and social hierarchies. Swyers examines the conditions, practices, and behaviors that help create and sustain the experience of community. At Wrigley Field, these practices can include the simple acts of scorecard-keeping and gathering at the same location before each game or insisting on elaborate rules of ticket distribution and seating arrangements, as well as more symbolic behaviors and superstitions that link the regulars to each other. A bleacher regular herself, Swyers uses a qualitative approach to define community as the ways in which people arrive at an awareness of themselves as a group with a particular relationship to the larger world. The case of the regulars offers a challenge to the claim that community is eroding in an increasingly fragmented and technologically driven culture, suggesting instead that our notions of where we find community and how we express it are changing.

Wrigley Regulars Reviews

An interesting inside look at the character and camaraderie created and shared by the community of Wrigley regulars.--NINE

Wrigley Regulars provides a very sophisticated analysis of community and then examines it using a provocative, compelling, and unusual case study about baseball. Because baseball is so deeply entrenched in American history and culture, Holly Swyers's case study has broad appeal.--Robert Elias, author of The Empire Strikes Out: How Baseball Sold U.S. Foreign Policy and Promoted the American Way Abroad

About Holly Swyers

Holly Swyers is an assistant professor of anthropology at Lake Forest College.

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CIN0252077407G
9780252077401
0252077407
Wrigley Regulars: Finding Community in the Bleachers by Holly Swyers
Used - Good
Paperback
University of Illinois Press
20100720
200
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