The Western Canadian Baseball League has announced their First-and Second-Team All-Stars for the 2024 season.
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Ian Wilson, of Alberta Dugout Stories, revisits five of the most memorable stories from this year's Western Canadian Baseball League playoffs.
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"These are no Greyhounds.
And they won’t win any ribbons at the Westminster Dog Show.
No, this breed is more of a junkyard dog or an older canine tasked with guard duty on the porch – a bit surly, fairly grizzled and totally committed to protecting the house. Not quite as unhinged as Cujo, but definitely carrying the reputation of “The Beast” from the classic baseball movie The Sandlot.
These are your 2024 Okotoks Dawgs, winners of a third consecutive Western Canadian Baseball League (WCBL) championship. "
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The Okotoks Dawgs will be gunning for a third straight Western Canadian Baseball League championship when they begin the 2024 league finals against the Moose Jaw Miller Express at Seaman Stadium on Thursday.
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Ian Wilson, of Alberta Dugout Stories, provides a preview of the Western Canadian Baseball League’s East and West Division Finals, which will begin on Sunday.
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Ian Wilson, of Alberta Dugout Stories, provides a Western Canadian Baseball League preview.
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“Record numbers of fans are crowding into Western Canadian Baseball League ballparks this summer to enjoy collegiate baseball at the highest level.
The WCBL has seen attendance reach 307,642 people over 286 games during the 2024 regular season, surpassing the 305,425 fans who showed up during the 2023 regular season.”
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“The scouting report for the Western Canadian Baseball League is in, and the WCBL received high praise through the Major League Baseball Draft.
The summer collegiate circuit experienced it's best MLB Draft ever, with more than a dozen alumni being selected over 20 rounds.”
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“Sweltering heat, a stuffed Seaman Stadium, and a star-studded cast of Western Canadian Baseball League talent punctuated the 2024 All-Star Game.
Despite temperatures over 30 degrees Celsius, an elated record crowd of 6,064 baseball fans showed up to take in the signature WCBL event in Okotoks.”
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Travis Bazzana, the top pick in this year’s MLB draft, and his Oregon State Beavers teammates spent 10 days training at the Seaman Stadium Complex in Okotoks, Alta. last fall. Ian Wilson, from Alberta Dugout Stories, wrote about it.
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The list of sluggers that will participate in the Western Canadian Baseball League’s All-Star Game Home Run Derby on Saturday at Seaman Stadium has been unveiled.
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Former Okotoks Dawgs outfielder Micah McDowell (Kentville, N.S.) is the No. 9 prospect on the 2024 Canadian Baseball Network Draft List heading into the MLB draft which begins today at 7 p.m. E.T. We wanted to rerun this excellent article written by Ian Wilson, of Alberta Dugout Stories, about McDowell that was published in January.
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“It was a baseball-bashing bonanza in Brooks.
When the dust finally settled – shortly before 11 pm on Tuesday, June 4th at Elks Field – the Lethbridge Bulls and Brooks Bombers had produced a Western Canadian Baseball League (WCBL) record 57 runs during the 31-26 victory for the Bulls.”
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Ian Wilson, of Alberta Dugout Stories, provides a preview of the 2024 Okotoks Dawgs.
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The Western Canadian Baseball League (WCBL) has launched its new and improved website.
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“He put the “battle” in North Battleford.
Following a playing career full of twists and turns that showed off his resilience, Andrew Albers has returned to his home province of Saskatchewan and he’s ready for the next chapter of his baseball life.
It’s been a full-circle time for Albers, who grew up watching Toronto Blue Jays broadcasts on television and tagging along at his father’s senior men’s baseball games.”
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Former Calgary Cannons infielder Pat Casey became a College World Series-winning coach with Oregon State University. He was inducted into the College Baseball Hall of Fame on February 15. Ian Wilson, of Alberta Dugout Stories, recently spoke with Casey.
Read More“He’s polite, mild mannered and a seemingly all-around nice guy.
Micah McDowell is at his best on the diamond, however, when he taps into his nasty side.
“I remember freshman and sophomore year didn’t go the way he planned, he had an injury in there as well and trying to come back from that, but I remember that transition of him going from kind of passive and unsure to, ‘I’m a bad man.’ Here we go,” said Mitch Canham, the head coach of Oregon State University’s baseball program.”
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The Western Canadian Baseball League has announced its 2023 award winners.
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