| International Standard Book Number |
9798217045112 (hardcover)
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| Personal Name |
Posnanski, Joe, author.
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| Title Statement |
Big fan : two friends, 82,490 miles, and the wild, wonderful sports we love / Joe Posnanski & Michael Schur ; foreword by Tom Hanks.
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| Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice |
New York : Dutton, 2026.
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| Physical Description |
xviii, 426 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
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| General Note |
Authors' names are reversed on spine and jacket.
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| General Note |
Includes index.
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| Summary, Etc. |
"New York Times bestselling authors Mike Schur and Joe Posnanski travel the world in a hilarious and heartwarming celebration of fans and the things they love: baseball, basketball, chess, darts, football, futbol, Indigenous North American stickball, pickleball, WWE, Taylor Swift, Star Wars, and more. Two great friends. Lots of frequent flyer miles. And a bottomless appetite for experiencing sports. That's what BIG FAN is all about. Bestselling authors and podcast hosts Joe Posnanski and Mike Schur love games--almost any game!--and they bring readers to the front row (and sometimes even right onto the field). Whether ringside at WrestleMania in Las Vegas, singing along with the maniacs at the World Darts Championships in London, or just watching eight straight hours of football at a Buffalo Wild Wings in Dallas, they bring us to the very heart of what it means to love something so much it hurts. Through crushing defeats and glorious wins, whether cheering penalty kicks with 65,000 fans in Liverpool or beholding a chess master castling in dead silence, BIG FAN is about why we love what we love and how fandom connects us in a time when so much else pulls us apart." -- Publisher's description.
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| Subject-Personal Name |
Posnanski, Joe Travel.
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| Subject-Personal Name |
Schur, Michael, 1975- Travel.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Travel.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Sports.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Fans (Persons)
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Sports spectators.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Travel writing.
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| Added Entry, Personal Name |
Schur, Michael, 1975- author.
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| Added Entry, Personal Name |
Hanks, Tom, writer of foreword.
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