Word: fandom
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tradition of fandom is passed along from one generation to the next. And it's hard to refute the gospel of previous generations with only apathy as your tool. A kid who truly wants to rebel against Yankee-rooting parents won't become a tennis enthusiast--he or she will become...
...unless you've already booked a flight for Clemson, or hooked up with a vanload of friends headed for points south, you have no choice this weekend but subscribe to the hot-stove-league philosophy of soccer fandom...
...crimson-and-white Nerf football with "Harvard" written on it may not seem to be a worthwhile souvenir for four years of fandom, but buying it after my last home game gives it more significance than anything...
...most amazing aspect of North Dakota fandom was singled out immediately by one Harvard booster: "What the hell is this? I've been going to games for four years, and I've never seen cheerleaders before...
...distraction from his work Roth most willingly tolerates is baseball. "My fandom," he says, without a trace of irony, "is the most interesting fact of my life." He talks eagerly about going to games as a boy and watching the old Newark Bears of the International League along with his older brother Sanford and his father, now a retired insurance-company executive. His boyhood passion was the Brooklyn Dodgers. "I went off to college, and then the Dodgers went off to L.A.," he says, shaking his head. Eventually, he transferred his allegiance to the New York Mets. Last summer...