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MICHEL-NATAL - SPORTS -
Baseball
Baseball was a popular summertime sport and was played by
men, women, and children alike. Baseball games and tournaments
were immensely popular spectator sports, and ironically in and
of themselves turned out to be as much of a recreational event
for the fans as they were for the players. Many ladies, for
instance, attended the games not just to root on their
team(they played in a league of their own), but rather to
socialize with their friends and fellow townspeople.
Softball
only began to be played in the late 1960s, and many old
timers today humourously scoff at the younger generations
who regularly play softball in Sparwood. "If we ever played
softball in Michel-Natal," mused one old timer, "we'd hit
that dang thing out of the park. Who couldn't hit a ball the
size of a grapefruit!?"
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