4 major sports Canadian inventions?

[beowulf]

Interesting argument that all 4 of the major sports in North America have Canadian roots. Whether first played in Canada (hockey, football) or created by a Canadian (basketball)

Both hockey and football were first played in Montreal it seems. Football was passed on to the US via McGill university showing it to Harvard.

Basket ball was of course invented by Ontarian James Naismith who invented while working for a school in Springfield, Mass.

And finally baseball which many people say Abner Doubleday invented the game. Seems this is not true at all.

But the whole business of him dreaming up the game of baseball? That was just a marketing ploy, sponsored and encouraged by Mr. Spalding of sporting goods fame, who wanted everyone to believe that baseball was 100 per cent all-American (Doubleday was already a resident of Arlington Cemetery when the myth was invented).

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It turns out that the earliest, detailed, reputable account of baseball being played in North America came out of a game in Beachville, Ont., which is in the Woodstock-London neck of the woods. The date of record is June 4, 1838. Teams from the neighbouring townships of Oxford and Zorra squared off. An eyewitness to the game wrote about it (admittedly, a few decades after the fact) in the pages of Sporting Life magazine.

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Born in Muddy York on Valentine's Day 1858, Arthur Albert Irwin had an Irish dad and a Canadian mom. At 25 years old, playing shortstop for the Providence Grays, he broke two fingers. Rather than quit playing, the wily fielder proved he deserved his nickname when he got an oversized leather glove, added padding to it, stitched fingers three and four together and invented the fielder’s glove.

Two weeks later he signed an exclusive manufacturing deal, and it was not long thereafter that 90 per cent of big leaguers were wearing "Irwin Gloves.†Not content with that little earner, he also patented the modern baseball scoreboard and padded bases. And he pulled off the first known squeeze play.

An interesting read.

http://www.cbc.ca/sportslongform/en...rican-football-baseball-basketball-and-hockey

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[John Price]

Last Canadian championship in any of those sports was 1993 though

 

[GIN ANTONIC]

Last Canadian championship in any of those sports was 1993 though

Nah, pretty sure a Canadian team won the grey cup last year.

 

[John Price]

Nah, pretty sure a Canadian team won the grey cup last year.

When was the last time a Canadian team won the super bowl?

 

[tarheelhockey]

Cringy.

 

[WeWantTacos]

The first football game was played in the 1860s between Rutgers and Princeton, baseball was mentioned in the 1820s in newspapers in the NE, basketball was invented in MA by a guy who died in Kansas and hockey comes from Europe.

 

[beowulf]

Cringy.

In what sense?

 

[beowulf]

The first football game was played in the 1860s between Rutgers and Princeton, baseball was mentioned in the 1820s in newspapers in the NE, basketball was invented in MA by a guy who died in Kansas and hockey comes from Europe.

Ya ok, did you even read the article? Amazing how wrong you are.

 

[New Jersey]

right. the first recorded, organized baseball game was played in hoboken, new jersey.

****ing blue jays get relevant again and all of a sudden...

 

[John Price]

While there are reports that the New York Knickerbockers played games in 1845, the contest long recognized as the first officially recorded baseball game in U.S. history took place on June 19, 1846, in Hoboken, New Jersey: the "New York Nine" defeated the Knickerbockers, 23–1, in four innings (three earlier games have ...

1869 New Jersey vs. Rutgers football game - Wikipedia
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The 1869 New Jersey vs. Rutgers football game was a college football game ... The game is considered to have been the first American football game ever played, but also is seen as ...

 

[WeWantTacos]

Ya ok, did you even read the article? Amazing how wrong you are.

Everything that I wrote is correct, the article is a cringy attempt to pump your tires.

 

[GIN ANTONIC]

When was the last time a Canadian team won the super bowl?

But you didn't say that and the thread didn't suggest that either. It had no mention of leagues, just the 4 major sports which are baseball, basketball, football, and hockey. CFL, as terrible as it the product is still counts as football which is one of the 4 major sports. Yeah, I'm splitting hairs and playing on semantics but it's a slow day so why not?

 

[WeWantTacos]

right. the first recorded, organized baseball game was played in hoboken, new jersey.

****ing blue jays get relevant again and all of a sudden...

 

[tarheelhockey]

In what sense?

In the obvious sense.

 

[Inkling]

It's cringey because baseball, hockey and football were not 'invented' anywhere. All three of them evolved from games coming from Europe. At most you could say the modern rules were formalized in North America. Basketball is the only one of the four that you could really say was 'invented'.

The Canadian story about the origin of baseball is pretty dubious too. The book 'Baseball Before We Knew It" goes into detail why we should be pretty cautious about believing it.

Canada's contributions to hockey, football and basketball are enough that we can take pride without ridiculous claims about inventing anything.

 

[Jumptheshark]

Hockey was first played in Scandinavia 50 years before the founding of Canada. Baseball evolved from cricket in south American.

 

[Jumptheshark]

Oh yeah. Football came from rugby and was called kickers in the us ivy leagues prior to montreal

 

[cupcrazyman]

Nah, pretty sure a Canadian team won the grey cup last year.

 

[KareemTrustfund]

Wolf, haven't you learned that the Lounge hates articles? If I wanted to read articles, I'd read literally anything else on the internet. I'd literally look out my window and see two articles holding hands and singing zippity do da. The 19th century called, they literally said they wish you were born during that time frame so they could tell you to **** with the articles already.

 

[The Head Crusher]

When was the last time a Canadian team won the super bowl?

When is the last time an NFL team played a CFL team? The answer 1961, the Hamilton Tiger Cats defeated the Buffalo Bills 38-21.

 

[tarheelhockey]

When is the last time an NFL team played a CFL team? The answer 1961, the Hamilton Tiger Cats defeated the Buffalo Bills 38-21.

Yeah, but it was the Bills.

 

[VoluntaryDom]

When is the last time an NFL team played a CFL team? The answer 1961, the Hamilton Tiger Cats defeated the Buffalo Bills 38-21.

bills don't count

 

[PositiveCashFlow]

No Canadian team has won the SuperBowl.

Baltimore won the Grey Cup.

 

[New Jersey]

update: blue jays still tied for last place

 

[Hutzler]

The first football game was played in the 1860s between Rutgers and Princeton, baseball was mentioned in the 1820s in newspapers in the NE, basketball was invented in MA by a guy who died in Kansas and hockey comes from Europe.

Fake news.