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Big Fan: Two Friends, 82,490 Miles, and the Wild, Wonderful Sports We Love

by Michael Schur

A wide-ranging tour of fandom

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A wide-ranging tour of fandom

Mike Schur and Joe Posnanski build this account around shared experiences of watching and taking part in sports and other enthusiasms. Its itinerary ranges from baseball, basketball, football and Indigenous North American stickball to chess, darts, pickleball, WWE, Taylor Swift and Star Wars, with stops at events and gathering places around the world. The variety gives the book room to consider fandom as both a personal attachment and a social bond: people can be united by the games, performers and stories they care about, even amid competition, celebration and defeat. Sports provide the framework, while the broader list makes clear that the subject is the many forms devotion can take.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in the culture and social side of sports fandom.
  • Readers who enjoy books spanning a broad range of games, events and popular enthusiasms.
  • Fans curious about how shared interests connect people across places and communities.

Themes

Sports and fandomShared enthusiasm and communityGames and competitionPopular culture

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Book overview

USA TODAY BESTSELLER

NPR's Book of the Day

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.
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