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For the Love of the Game: Amateur Sport in Small-Town Ontario, 1838-1895

Nancy B Bouchier

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Description:Nancy Bouchier traces the increasing importance of amateur sport to Woodstock and Ingersoll, two small nineteenth-century Ontario towns, revealing its intricate ties to urban boosterism and middle-class culture. Focusing on civic holiday celebrations, the establishment of organized clubs for cricket, baseball, and lacrosse, and the rise of spirited urban sports rivalries, Bouchier shows that small town interest in sports was much more than a pale imitation of the sporting life of Canada's major urban centres.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with For the Love of the Game: Amateur Sport in Small-Town Ontario, 1838-1895. To get started finding For the Love of the Game: Amateur Sport in Small-Town Ontario, 1838-1895, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 224

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press

Release: 2003

ISBN: 0773570705

Description: Nancy Bouchier traces the increasing importance of amateur sport to Woodstock and Ingersoll, two small nineteenth-century Ontario towns, revealing its intricate ties to urban boosterism and middle-class culture. Focusing on civic holiday celebrations, the establishment of organized clubs for cricket, baseball, and lacrosse, and the rise of spirited urban sports rivalries, Bouchier shows that small town interest in sports was much more than a pale imitation of the sporting life of Canada's major urban centres.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with For the Love of the Game: Amateur Sport in Small-Town Ontario, 1838-1895. To get started finding For the Love of the Game: Amateur Sport in Small-Town Ontario, 1838-1895, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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