Canadian Baseball Network columnist Patrick Kennedy reflects on catching a young Taylor Cole in Kingston back in 2010, as the former big league righthander contemplates hanging up his spikes.
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“The Oxford dictionary defines “dream,” in part, as “a cherished aspiration, an ambition.”
Either way, Ethan Hunt (Kingston, Ont.) is living his dream.
This is a tale of a talented, likeable lad who has always wanted to play professional baseball. That dream has finally come true. The 24-year-old Hunt made his pro debut on August 16 with les Aigles de Trois Rivières of the independent Frontier League. He played a flawless second base and took his first-ever cuts at the plate as a paid batter. In his first at-bat – this after an 800-km, eight-hour drive from Welland to Trois Rivieres with a pitstop in this area to pick up the player’s father, Jim - the rookie legged out a double.”
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“For “Junior” it was to be his first game coaching on a Kingston ball diamond in more than 40 years. That’s quite a break between games at a familiar playground for hometown boy Bob Elliott, who long ago outgrew the nickname he earned in his youth as the namesake son of a local sporting hero. (“Niblet,” too, is all but forgotten, although Elliott is known to answer to “Knobber” when in the company of guys who played for him back in the day.)”
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Veteran Kingston, Ont., writer Patrick Kennedy caught up with fellow Kingston native Matt Brash, after the right-hander made his major league debut with the Seattle Mariners on Tuesday. With that, Brash became the first from Kingston to play in the major leagues.
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Canadian Baseball Network writer Patrick Kennedy shares the story of how slugger Barry Bonds helped put the maple bats made by Ottawa-based carpenter, Sam Holman, on the major league map.
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Canadian Baseball Network writer Patrick Kennedy recalls a pre-banquet press conference in Edmonton from early in his journalism career in which he met his boyhood idol Mickey Mantle, who was a guest at the event alongside a slugger from another sport, Canadian boxer and Olympic silver medallist, Willie deWit.
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Canadian Baseball Network writer Patrick Kennedy recently caught up with Kingston, Ont., pitching legend Joe Kotowicz who shared some “magical” memories from his times around the local ballpark.
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The Kingston Senior Men’s Baseball League is turning 40. That’s a noteworthy achievement for any sandlot circuit, let alone for one conceived and configured in a 1981 “car meeting” at Nelles Megaffin’s decaying north-end playpen, writes Canadian Baseball Network contributor Patrick Kennedy.
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