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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. Michael Schur is a television writer and producer who has worked on shows like The Office, Hacks, and Saturday NightLive, and created or co-created Parks and Recreation, Brooklyn 99, The Good Place, and A Man on the Inside. During one of the events he attended for this book he stepped in a puddle of beer and his shoe stuck to the ground so intensely he thought he was going to have to just go home in his socks.
Joe Posnanski is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of eight books, including Why We Love Baseball, The Baseball 100, Paterno, and The Secret of Golf. He has won two Sports Emmys, been named National Sportswriter of the Year by five different organizations, and, most proudly, was inducted into the National Polish-American Sports Hall of Fame. For this book, Mike challenged him to watch and participate in a pickleball tournament, a sport he loathes.
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. Michael Schur is a television writer and producer who has worked on shows like The Office, Hacks, and Saturday NightLive, and created or co-created Parks and Recreation, Brooklyn 99, The Good Place, and A Man on the Inside. During one of the events he attended for this book he stepped in a puddle of beer and his shoe stuck to the ground so intensely he thought he was going to have to just go home in his socks.
Joe Posnanski is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of eight books, including Why We Love Baseball, The Baseball 100, Paterno, and The Secret of Golf. He has won two Sports Emmys, been named National Sportswriter of the Year by five different organizations, and, most proudly, was inducted into the National Polish-American Sports Hall of Fame. For this book, Mike challenged him to watch and participate in a pickleball tournament, a sport he loathes.