On Equal Footing: Women Making Softball Their Own
It has been made pretty clear over the history of the Americas that women’s sports have never been as popular or even liked as much as men’s. As a female athlete myself, and as
It has been made pretty clear over the history of the Americas that women’s sports have never been as popular or even liked as much as men’s. As a female athlete myself, and as
NASCAR as a sport, even to this day, is defined partly by its “separate breed” of athletes which partake in. Even with regards to other motor sports, the drivers of professional stock car racing
This week, I read “John ‘Army’ Howard, Canada’s First Black Olympian: A Nation-Building Paradox.” In this article, the author gives in-depth details explaining the relationship between race in Canada during the early 1900’s. She uses
Quote: “The game fit perfectly with an increasingly militarizing nation” This quote summarized the overall purpose that Swanson has in the first two chapters. Roosevelt is regarded as a man of the people and
This reading dealt with the development of professional wrestling, it’s connection to the South, and how it propelled stereotypes of Southern people into popular culture. “Early southern stereotypes tended toward either the Tobacco Road
In Futbol, Jews, and the Making of Argentina the development of the Jewish communities of Argentina, and the impact of soccer as a socially/culturally uniting factor to include them into the larger culture of
When I was reading through this week’s text one quote stuck out to me “Early twentieth-century football was trench warfare, favoring defensive strategy and field position above everything else. The game perfectly with an
When reading this article, I was intrigued at the great sense of national identity that Cubans have for the game of baseball, despite it originating in the United States. The author states that baseball
Quote: “Baseball was one aspect of American culture that proved to have irresistible appeal.” This quote stuck out to me after reading both the chapter in Raceball and the article about baseball in Venezuela.
Quote: “Baseball was a powerful force in the democratization and secularization of Cuban culture, at least as an ideal, if not quite so in practice.” While under the reign of the Spanish, Cuba experienced