George Sleeman and the Guelph Maple Leafs
The 1874 Guelph Maple Leafs, George Sleeman center. (Harper’s Weekly, September 12, 1874) Baseball’s rise in the nineteenth century featured a storied cast of characters in a variety of locales. It is perhaps a reflection of the prototypically humble Canadian persona that the early “dynasties” north of the border were not from the larger metropolitan […]