Bibliographic record
Abstract
David Menary. Terrier Town: Summer of '49. Waterloo ON: Wilfred Laurier University Press, 2003. 407 pp. Paper, $25.95 U.S. In terms of genre David Menary's Terrier Town: Summer of '49 is a curious book. On the one hand it is a history, most specifically of a magical season of the Galt Terriers of the Intercounty League of Ontario, a league billed as semipro but actually--in terms of talent and paychecks--more like an independent minor league. On the other hand the book purports to be a novel, introducing, as narrator, the fictional Charlie Hodge, a young native of Galt and rookie bench warmer on a team that includes ex-major and minor leaguers and local talent with professional skills. Certainly basing a novel on historical events is nothing new and often works, but here Hodge and the brief accounts we get of his growth seem ancillary to a well-researched and finely detailed history not only of the Galt Terriers of 1949 but of the Intercounty League itself, which dates to 1919. Within this history Menary details the place of baseball in Ontario before television, and the many characters, both on the field and off, who contributed to the vibrant rivalries among such small Ontario cities as Galt (population 15,000 in 1949), Brantford, Kitchener, Guelph, Waterloo, and London, the league's big town. Though Hodge's voice as narrator looking back creates an attractively wistful tone appropriate to evoking a bygone era, the power in this book comes from Menary's meticulous research. Some readers may find the detail more than they want to know, but for those with historical interests, and particularly interest in Canadian baseball, Terrier Town will be a welcome addition to historical work on baseball outside the Majors. Menary has interviewed and profiled numerous former Terriers as well as their opponents. He also chronicles the accomplishments of two of the most important men behind the teams, Gus Murray, owner and indefatigable promoter of the Terriers, and Larry Pennell, team president and GM of the rival Brantford Red Sox. Readers familiar with Canadian history and politics will also recognize Pennell as a longtime member of Parliament and friend of Prime Minister Lester Pearson. Though certainly a pillar of the Intercounty League and a force for civic good in the town of Brantford, with the book's focus on Galt, Pennell garners less attention than Gus Murray, a Galt merchant and civic visionary who in '49 decided to put the town on the map by building a team the likes of which the Intercounty had never seen before. …
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.593 | 0.272 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".