For the Love of the Game
Author | : Nancy B. Bouchier |
Publisher | : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2003-01-31 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780773570702 |
ISBN-13 | : 0773570705 |
Rating | : 4/5 (705 Downloads) |
Download or read book For the Love of the Game written by Nancy B. Bouchier and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2003-01-31 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.