1st Edition

Sport in the Americas Local, Regional, National, and International Perspectives

Edited By Mark Dyreson Copyright 2018
124 Pages
by Routledge

124 Pages
by Routledge

124 Pages
by Routledge

Statues of fans as nostalgic monuments to the North American devotion to baseball, Canadian lacrosse and ethnic ideologies, the rise of modern sports and class sensibilities in São Paulo, the inaugural world championship for women’s hockey, and national memories of Olympic Games hosted on US soil. What do these seemingly disparate themes have in common? They each comprise a facet of sporting... Read more

Introduction: Sport in the Americas: Local, Regional, National, and International Perspectives

Mark Dyreson and Jaime Schultz

1. Standing Out from the Crowd: Imaging Baseball Fans through Sculpture

Christopher Stride, Ffion Thomas and Gregory Ramshaw

2. Reclaiming Canada Through Its ‘Ancient’ Sport: Lacrosse and the Native Sons of Canada in Late 1920s Alberta

Robert Kossuth and David McMurray

3. The Rise of Modern Sport in Fin de Siècle São Paulo: Reading Elite and Bourgeois Sensibilities, the Popular Press, and the Creation of Cultural Capital

Edivaldo Góis Jr, Soraya Lódola and Mark Dyreson

4. ‘Women Can’t Skate that Fast and Shoot that Hard!’ The First Women’s World Ice Hockey Championship, 1990

Patrick A. Reid and Daniel S. Mason

5. Region and Race: The Legacies of the St Louis Olympics

Mark Dyreson

Biography

Mark Dyreson is a Professor of Kinesiology and History at the Pennsylvania State University, USA; the Director of Research and Educational Programs at the Penn State Center for the Study of Sport in Society; the Managing Editor of The International Journal of the History of Sport; a former President of the North American Society for Sport History; and a Fellow of the National Academy of Kinesiology.