The Victoria HarbourCats have hired former big leaguer Greg Swindell as their bench coach.
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Right-hander James Taillon, who maintains dual Canadian-American citizenship, has been traded to the New York Yankees by the Pittsburgh Pirates.
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St. Louis Cardinals right-hander Adam Wainwright is this year’s Roberto Clemente Award winner for his efforts with the Home Plate Project, a charity that helped Canadian families in need during the early part of the COVID-19 pandemic. Canadian Baseball Network writer J.P. Antonacci has the details.
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“You’re more likely to find a lacrosse stick than a baseball bat in Six Nations of the Grand River, a First Nations community southwest of Hamilton, Ont. But at the Thomas home, baseball is the name of the game. Brad and Cindy Thomas both played ball in their younger days and passed on their love of the game to their sons Kaden – who plays minor baseball in Brantford – and 16-year-old Kaleb, a pitcher-infielder with the Mississauga Tigers High Performance Program who Perfect Game has their eye on as a promising high school athlete.”
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Canadian Baseball Network writer J.P. Antonacci shares his memories of meeting Bob Gibson and fellow Hall of Famers Bob Feller and Fergie Jenkins on one special Mother’s Day at Christie Pits in Toronto in 1994.
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The Brantford Red Sox Home Run for Hospice alumni game which will take place on Saturday at Arnold Anderson Stadium is a fundraiser for the Stedman Community Hospice, where Intercounty Baseball League legend Jamie Corke spent his final days in palliative care after a Stage 4 colon cancer diagnosis last year.
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“Each June, the Toronto Blue Jays go to bat for deafblind awareness by inviting a client of Sensity – formerly the Canadian Deafblind Association Ontario Chapter – to throw out a ceremonial first pitch during National Deafblind Awareness Month.”
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Canadian Baseball Network writer J.P. Antonacci recently caught up with Trevor Oakes, owner of Tillsonburg, Ont., bat company, ABO Baseball, whose bats were used in major league action for the first time this year.
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Chilliwack Cougars and Junior National Team alum Cade Smith (Abbotsford, B.C.) has been a pre-med student at the University of Hawaii for the past three years. In June, the 6-foot-5, 220-pound right-hander signed as an amateur free agent with the Cleveland Indians and he feels ready to embark on a professional career. Canadian Baseball Network writer J.P. Antonacci shares Smith’s story.
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Canadian Baseball Network writer J.P. Antonacci recently caught up with San Diego Padres’ 2020 second-round pick Owen Caissie (Burlington, Ont.), also known as “Orange Crush,” to talk about the young slugger’s road to his first pro contract that he recently signed with the Padres.
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All-star first baseman Freddie Freeman, who played for Canada at the 2017 World Baseball Classic, is one of four Atlanta players to have tested positive for COVID-19, the team announced on Saturday.
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Former left-hander Phil Devey (St. Jerome, Que.) tells Canadian Baseball Network writer J.P. Antonacci that his love for the game was revived when he had the opportunity to pitch for the national team at the 2004 Olympics.
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A statue honouring the late Tony Robichaux, longtime baseball coach at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, was unveiled at the Ragin’ Cajuns home field in February. The statue was commissioned and paid for by a group of Robichaux’s former players, led by Canadian pitcher Phil Devey (Lachute, Que.).
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A group of Toronto Blue Jays fans has started a fundraiser to assist Blue Jays Central host Jamie Campbell in his efforts to deliver personal protective equipment (PPE) into the hands of front-line health workers
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Ontario Blue Jays alum Noah Skirrow (Stoney Creek, Ont.), who is one of the top Canadian pitching prospects heading into this year’s MLB draft, is trying to stay sharp by pitching in a barn in Pennsylvania that’s owned by his girlfriend’s family.
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Canadian Baseball Network writer J.P. Antonacci shares his memories of watching the Toronto Blue Jays win the 1992 World Series with his father.
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“Negative experiences with his coaches drove a teenage Marco Bianchi out of baseball, and he regretted it for years. When he later became a coach with Toronto Playgrounds Baseball, Bianchi was determined that every one of his players would feel valued and respected. “I wanted to coach so I can ensure that people never stop loving the game and want to play it for years to come,” said Bianchi, Baseball Ontario’s 2019 Rep 14U and above Coach of the Year.”
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Canadians playing baseball at U.S. colleges who feared that the COVID-19 outbreak had prematurely ended their collegiate careers have new reason to hope. Last week the NCAA announced that all spring athletes would be granted an extra year of eligibility in light of their seasons being lost to the pandemic.
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Canadian Baseball Network writer J.P. Antonacci recently caught up with former outfielder Mike House (Victoria, B.C.) who in 1985 became the first Canadian to be selected by a Canadian big league team in the MLB draft.
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Lou Proietti (Hamilton, Ont.), who runs the baseball program at Saint Peter’s University in Jersey City, N.Y. was one of many coaches who had to break the news to their players that the NCAA had cancelled all college sports seasons due to the global coronavirus outbreak.
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