On Vennum's Lacrosse Legends of the first Americans
American Indian lacrosse: Little brother of war by Thomas Vennum, Jr., is one of the finest books on the history of lacrosse that I've encountered to date.His more recent book on lacrosse, however, while an interesting read, has quite a few factual errors, more noticeable to me, a Canadian, than they would perhaps be to an American reader.
Take, for example, this comment on page 40: "In a Dominion Day 1874 game, the Brampton Excelsiors, a British Columbia team, won over the Native Six Nations team..." Um, wrong. The Brampton Excelsiors are based in Brampton, Ontario, a couple of time zones east of British Columbia.
And of course, when he refers to "Nemeimo" on page 144, he must certainly mean Nanaimo, home of the Timbermen.
Careless errors like the above can blow a book's credibility. I hate when publishers cut back on fact-checking.
Labels: Brampton Excelsiors, lacrosse, Nanaimo Timbermen, Thomas Vennum
posted by Barbara K. Adamski @ 8:09 PM
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