Conclusion

This conclusion provides a critical overview on the book. The book is aware of and attentive to the ways in which sports histories are gendered and racialized. The volume does a good job of going beyond the Brazilian and Argentinian cases that provide the majority of the historiography, with the case studies from Trinidad and Tobago, Chile and Ecuador particularly welcome.This collection provides us with the first steps towards a comprehensive understanding of sports media in Latin America. Historians’ reliance on newspapers as their principal primary source material for sports history has not been matched, in Latin America at least, by a critical analysis of—or even a basic mapping out of—what that media was, how it changed over time, and who the publishers, journalists and readers were.