Museum Talk | Ottawa's Baseball History

The Osgoode Township Museum is excited to host Steve Rennie for our first talk of 2025!

Steve Rennie is a baseball writer and researcher who lives in Ottawa. A former journalist who covered Canadian politics from Parliament Hill for nearly a decade, his reporting garnered him two National Newspaper Awards and three Canadian Association of Journalists award nominations. Among a number of international assignments, he spent a total of six months between 2008 and 2011 covering the war in Afghanistan. He has reported from every Canadian province and territory, with a particularly memorable assignment aboard an icebreaker traversing part of the Northwest Passage. He is the president of the Ottawa-Gatineau and Eastern Ontario chapter of the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR). In the spring of 2024, he presented on Ottawa’s early baseball history at the Frederick Ivor-Campbell 19th Century Base Ball Conference in Coopers-town, New York. He has a particular interest in 19th century baseball in Canada and enjoys unearthing long forgotten games and teams from the sport’s early history for the Centre for Canadian Baseball Research and Protoball.

Please join us on Zoom, on February 20th at 7pm. There will be a presentation followed by a question and answer period.  We look forward to sharing this talk with you!

Make sure to register for this free event on Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/museum-talk-baseball-history-in-ottawa-tickets-1208796375499?aff=oddtdtcreator