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Superfans by George Dohrmann (Hardcover, 2018)

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Author: George Dohrmann. Title: Superfans. Format: Hardback. Type: Hardback. Item Length: 156mm. Language: English. Item Height: 235mm. Country/Region of Manufacture: US.

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From a Pulitzer Prize-winning Sports Illustrated journalist comes a fascinating exploration of what it means to be a superfan, featuring personal profiles and cutting-edge psychology. There are fans, and then there are fanatics. In this wondrously immersive look at American sports fandom, George Dohrmann travels the country to find out what makes a superfan. In Minnesota, he meets newly minted generals of the Viking World Order; in Oregon, he shares a few beers with a lone soccer fan who single-handedly amassed a cheering section 4,000-strong for the Portland Timbers; in Illinois, he talks with the parents of a five-year-old boy whose hatred of Tom Brady went viral on YouTube. Through these and other humanizing profiles, Dohrmann uses the latest thinking in sports psychology-some of it learned during an intense round of mini golf with a group of professors at the annual Sports Psychology Forum-to unravel what makes sports fans so obsessive.