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Long before Toronto fans cheered on Joe Carter, José Bautista and Vladimir Guerrero Jr, they were rooting for Napoleon Lajoie, Billie Hallam and Lionel Conacher.
In this talk, storyteller and historian Adam Bunch will explore the history of some of the greatest players to ever take the field in our city. We'll meet legendary sluggers and hard-throwing beauty queens, Hall of Famers and feminist pioneers. Through the stories of their lives and their careers, we'll trace the evolution of the sport in Toronto and how it has helped shape the city we live in today.
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Baseball was being played in Toronto more than a century before the Blue Jays were born. In this series of talks, we'll explore the game's evolution in our city, from the days when it was a working class sport played by "undesirables" to Joe Carter jumping for joy in front of 50,000 screaming fans. Along the way, we'll meet everyone from con artists and kidnappers to eccentric millionaires and feminist icons, the people who've made Toronto baseball what it is… and helped transform our city in the process.
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