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Bill Humber Book Published by CCBR

Historian and Centre for Canadian Baseball Research Director Bill Humber has completed his latest work, Old Ontario at Bat: An Unheralded Ancestry. Published by the Centre, the book is available now through the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame (and on-line via Amazon shortly) at a cost of $29.95 plus shipping.

In his book, Bill questions a number of the widely held beliefs surrounding baseball’s evolution in North America, especially that the game is the product of an innovation and ingenuity purely American. He argues instead that it was Canadian agency, largely independent of American influence, that powered baseball’s developmental steps in Canada, providing an ancestry for the game heretofore unheralded.

The product of decades of research into the history of baseball in Canada, Old Ontario at Bat takes us on a journey through 19th century Ontario, busting myths and clarifying understanding along the way. 368 pages.