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The View from the Stands: A Season with America's Baseball Fans

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The view from the stands is a nice collection of stories recounting one woman's journey through the halls of all the major league baseball stadiums. Ms. Wagner is a die-hard fan, raised in Ohio and nourished on The Big Red Machine. Ms. Wagner tells a good story but the shining points in the book come when she is interacting with the fans on her recent journey - she shows a real insight for what fans connect with when going to their hometown park - and what they don't.

The book has an interesting perspective and would be a valuable read for all major league owners. While they need to be concerned with what is going on in the field, Ms. Wagner does the owners a real service by providing some gratis research for what's going on in the minds of the fans.

An interesting read.

Ms. Wagner does a brilliant job of piecing together her trips to various ballparks around the country, entwining them into a cohesive whole. I am not aware of any other book about baseball that discusses the aspects of various stadiums and team franchises and how they affect the fans. Her opinions are often strong, but she backs them up with solid reasoning, and also offers her own ideas on remedying various problems in the baseball world.

I highly recommend this book for anyone interested in baseball's fan base and the pleasures and difficulties of being a fan.