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Team Sport History

I am interested in the regulation of sports in the second half of the 1800s which both fixed and distinguished many major sports of today. I am also interested in how this global phenomena played out in Canada.

I am going to propose that there are a number of general classes of team sports and that can be illustrated in particular through the review of the history of team sport in this country.

Canadian Team Sport Family Tree
Team Sports in Canada, like elsewhere in the English speaking world, organized themselves beginning in the second half of the 1800s.
Game's Roots Run Deep - Whig, 25 April 2009
An article by Jordan Press on early baseball in Kingston.
Goal and Ball Sports
There are a vast number of team sports which have two ends, one ball and are played against the clock. They differ from the other basic class, stick and ball.
Stick and Ball Sports
There are fewer team sports which do not run against the clock.