Editing Anglicisation (section)

=== Indirect influence ===
{{See also|Americanization#Sports|History of sports in the United States}}
[[File:Aprettylittlepocketbook.jpg|thumb|[[Baseball]], the American pastime, originates from England, with its predecessors' first mention in print being in [[A Little Pretty Pocket-Book]] (1744).]]
English pastimes and ideas influenced early American sporting practices significantly.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Pope |first1=Steven W. |last2=Nauright |first2=John |date=2016-10-01 |title=American-British Sporting Rivalries and the Making of the Global Sports Industry |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14775700.2016.1242694#abstract |journal=Comparative American Studies |volume=14 |issue=3–4 |pages=302–319 |doi=10.1080/14775700.2016.1242694 |issn=1477-5700}}</ref> For example, Mark Dyreson has argued that American attempts to improve the world through sport took inspiration from British imperial models.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Pope |first=Steven W. |date=2015 |title=Rethinking Sport, Empire, and American Exceptionalism |url=https://journals.humankinetics.com/view/journals/shr/46/1/article-p71.xml |journal=Sport History Review |volume=46 |issue=1 |pages=71–99 |doi=10.1123/shr.46.1.71 |issn=1087-1659|url-access=subscription }}</ref> The England-originated philosophy of [[Muscular Christianity]] also played a role in shaping American attitudes towards sport and its global role by the turn of the 20th century.<ref>{{Cite web |last=McKay |first=Brett and Kate |date=2016-09-13 |title=When Christianity Was Muscular |url=https://www.artofmanliness.com/character/knowledge-of-men/when-christianity-was-muscular/ |access-date=2024-12-21 |website=The Art of Manliness |language=en-US}}</ref>