Saturday February 04, 2012

Sports and Hobbies

Sweden & America (1987–1999) featured articles on a great variety of sports and leisure activites. Scanned versions (in pdf format) are catagorized here.

SUMMER SPORTS	WINTER SPORTS
Baseball: Four Swedes “Go to the Show” (Spring 96) Baseball: Cliff Gustafson: Life After Baseball (Spring 97) Boxing: Ingemar Johansson (Summer 99) Frisbee: No Guts, No Glory (Spring 98) Golf: Swede Success: Stars of the LPGA (Autumn 95) Orienteering (Autumn 89) (Summer 98) Riding: The Horses of Flyinge (Winter 96) Riding: Veinge Riding Crops (Spring 93) Soccer: Women’s World Cup 1999 (Summer 99) Softball: “Spela Boll!” (Summer 89)	Dog sledding: Race to the Finish (Winter 98) Football: Packer's Coach, Mike Holmgren (Summer 92) Football: Heroes of Football’s Golden Years (Autumn 96) Hockey: It’s a North-South Thing (Autumn/Winter 98) Skiing: Birkebeiner (Winter 97) Skiing: Vasaloppet in Mora, Minn. (Winter 89) Skiing: Åre: Sweden’s Winter Wonderland (Spring 99)
	WATER SPORTS
	Canoeing: The Johan Printz Challenge (Spring 96) Fishing: Abu Garcia: 75 Years of “Reel” Excellence (Summer 96) Kayaking: Sweden by Sea Kayak (Autumn 97) Sailing: Navigating in the Old Days (Autumn-Winter 98)
EQUIPMENT RACKS	OLYMPICS
Thule: Carriers, Mounts, Etc. (Summer 97)	Staffan Strand: Sweden’s All-American (Autumn 99) Swedish Olympians at Atlanta (Summer 96)
GARDENING	GENEALOGY
Gardening for Swedish-Americans (Winter 88) Gardening for Swedish-Americans, Part II (Spring 89) Gardens in the Footsteps of Carl Linnaeus (Summer 89) Planting a Bit of Sweden in Your Garden (Spring 97)	Ådalen: Valley of the Sagas (Winter 91) American Friends of the Emigrant Institute of Sweden (Winter 90) ASI Genealogy Service (Spring 89) Bernadotte: Sweden's Royal Family (Spring 92) Genealogical Aid from the Post Office (Summer 88) Looking for "Unknown Relatives": The Swedish Emigrant Institute of Växjö (Spring 91) Luleå and Homecoming Day in Älvsbyn (Winter 92) The Mighty Oak Has Strong Roots (Summer 99) The Search for Johan Petter Axelsson’s Father (Spring 89) Swedish Genealogical Dictionary (Autumn 91) Swedish Genealogy: Putting the Pieces Together (Autumn 95) The Swenson Center: Where to Search for Your Great-Grandfather (Winter 92) Tracing Your Swedish Ancestry (Autumn 90) Vilhelm Moberg & Me: Our Emigrant Tales (Spring 99)
STAMPS
Czesaw Slania, Engraver (Autumn 91) New Sweden Commemorative Stamp (Winter 88) The Swedish-American World of Stamps (Summer 88)