Sport in the Americas

This collection offers new insights on the role of sport in defining and shaping local, regional, national, and international cultures in the Americas. The chapters originally published as a special issue in The International Journal of the History of Sport.

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.

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