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Steve Rennie grew up in Osgoode and got to watch the Triple-A Ottawa Lynx in action. As president of the Ottawa-Gatineau and Eastern Ontario chapter of the Society for American Baseball research, he has a particular interest in 19th-century baseball in Canada. He wrote several chapters for “From Bytown to the Big Leagues: 150 years of America’s pastime in Canada’s capital” and co-edited the book with Bill Nowlin.
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No one really knows how baseball started in Ottawa but people have played the game in the area since at least the 1860s. By the end of the century, the capital had even hosted a team called … the Senators. And their uniforms were, well, unique. Here’s an excerpt:
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The summer of 1898 was a turbulent time for professional baseball. Ballpark attendance figures plummeted a
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