Nostalgia-Related Aspects of Professional Sport Facilities: A Facility Audit of Major League Baseball and National Football League Strategies to Evoke the Past

Meyer, Katherine; Seifried, Chad

doi:10.5199/ijsmart-1791-874x-5c

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“…To that end, the story must remain transferred across the generation so that the heritage tourism in the area is recognizable by the tourists. Meanwhile, nostalgia can make people remembering back their past through certain objects or symbols (Seifried & Meyer, 2010). The experience and nostalgia reflected through the local people and some tourists will keep the continuity in the area (Goodwin et al, 2009).…”

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“…Furthermore, in the heritage tourism area, tourist satisfaction is gained from the peculiarities of tourism objects. These objects form emotional and psychological bonds between the tourists and the heritage tourism objects (Seifried & Meyer, 2010). The uniqueness that builds the place identity should become the basic performance of a heritage area, and it would be easy to remember and describe (Ginting & Rahman, 2016a).…”

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The Role of Place Identity in Planning Heritage Tourism

Ginting

Rahman

Subhilhar

et al. 2018

IJPD

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Spatial planning can improve one’s quality of life by enhancing the environmental quality and its potential. Thus, the application of the concept of identity into the planning process is essential in emphasizing the significance of a place, especially in heritage tourism area, where tourist satisfaction is obtained from the tourism objects peculiarities that become the place identity. However, similar studies are still limited so that this study will contribute to filling the gaps. This study is conducted in Maimoon Palace District, a historic area in Medan. This study aims to examine the application of the concept of spatial planning based on the area identity. A qualitative method is used to collect the data about spatial planning elements in the area. The findings indicate that the existing spatial planning has already contained the place identity. However, many problems in spatial planning elements still cause a chaotic view of the area. Therefore, the government should improve the area not only by improving the physical quality but also increasing tourist satisfaction to enhance tourism attractiveness.

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The Role of Place Identity in Planning Heritage Tourism

Ginting

Rahman

Subhilhar

et al. 2018

IJPD

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“…Nostalgia, defined as recollections from the past that serve to offer a preferred escape or alternative to the present, is exploited by many non-sporting organisations, both political and economic (Humphreys and Brown, 2002;Milligan, 2003). Seifried and Meyer (2010) describe how nostalgia-related emotions generated by sports facilities help fans to relive previous experiences of both enjoyment and endurance and provide the inspiration to pilgrimage to that location (Holbrook and Schindler, 1996;Pascal, Sprott and Muehling, 2002).…”

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Modeling Stadium Statue Subject Choice in U.S. Baseball and English Soccer

Stride¹,

Thomas²,

Wilson³

et al. 2012

Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports

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From an almost standing start at the beginning of the 1990s, the number of statues of U.S. baseball and English soccer heroes has risen inexorably. By 1 st September 2011, 33 soccer players and 67 Major League Baseball (MLB) players were, or were soon to be, depicted by existing or commissioned subject specific statues inside or adjacent to the stadia they once performed in. Yet even amongst the very finest exponents of their sport, relatively few players are honored in this way.This paper investigates and compares the defining characteristics of stadium statue subjects in these two national sports. We first developed a shortlist of potential causal factors likely to influence subject selection by considering the motivations behind statue building. The MLB Hall of Fame and the English Football League "100 Legends" list were then used as samples of the best performers from each sport. Logistic regression models were built to test the effects of potential predictors for the selection of statue subjects; these included loyalty, locality, longevity, performance of the player and their team, national recognition, sympathy and the effect of nostalgia or memory (i.e., the era a player performed in).The optimal models for soccer and baseball correctly identified depiction or non-depiction for 87% and 90.6% of the respective samples, and their significant constituent effects indicated the importance of club loyalty and era. Players who played most or all of their careers at one club or franchise and those active in the 1950s and 1960s were most likely to be depicted. This latter finding in particular suggests that the role of a statue as a nostalgia/heritage marketing object impacts upon subject choice, which is thus dependent in part on the "chance" effect of birth era. Distinct characteristics of each sport, such as baseball franchise relocation and international soccer success, were also found to have a significant effect upon the probability of depiction. Predicted probabilities were calculated for players with statues who were not Football League "Legends" or MLB Hall of Famers; these confirm the viability of the model outside of the elite performers it was constructed upon.

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“…Given the heterogeneity of instigators, funding sources, location and design of statues, and the ability of statues to project multiple meanings it is natural to assume that there will also be variation in the primary motives for these monuments; as such, this provides a rich area for exploration. The sporting statuary of the US is beginning to generate detailed critical appraisal, 11 though even for this substantial and established collection, recognition and examination is mostly brief and in passing.…”

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Honouring heroes by branding in bronze: theorizing the UK's football statuary

2013

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He has published across a wide range of social science disciplines, and is particularly interested in the use of statistical methods to support and add rigour to research in areas where advanced quantitative analysis would typically be considered an anathema. John P. Wilson Department of Continuing Education, University of Oxford, Oxford, UKDr John Wilson is a Human Resources consultant with research interests in work, education and sport. Ffion Thomas University of Sheffield, UKFfion Thomas is an English Literature graduate from the University of Sheffield, currently working in data analysis at CRU International in London, with research interests in sports history, particularly football and baseball. by the increasing availability of funding, and by spare capacity in fan organisations. Statue projects may be beneficial in bringing supporters together, but as a conduit for engaging the wider public in social history they are limited by subject choices driven by memory or sympathy.

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Nostalgia-Related Aspects of Professional Sport Facilities: A Facility Audit of Major League Baseball and National Football League Strategies to Evoke the Past

Cited by 26 publications

References 56 publications

The Role of Place Identity in Planning Heritage Tourism

The Role of Place Identity in Planning Heritage Tourism

Modeling Stadium Statue Subject Choice in U.S. Baseball and English Soccer

Honouring heroes by branding in bronze: theorizing the UK's football statuary

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