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Orr convinces Brewers brass of O’Rae’s upside

“Dylan O’Rae shot up the draft board faster than he goes first to third on a single through the right side.

And anyone who has seen the young infielder play, knows just how fast that is.

Thanks to the keen eye of scout and Canadian baseball legend Pete Orr (Newmarket, Ont.), the Milwaukee Brewers scooped up the Great Lake Canadian with their third round pick, 102nd overall in the 2022 draft. This made him the first Canadian selected.”

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Davisson recalls being a part of Canada’s first junior national squad

It could be called Canada’s first junior national team, and Bob Davisson, then a naïve, 16-year-old left-hander from Oakbank, Man., was part of it.

Canadian Baseball Network editor Kevin Glew recently spoke with Davisson about that trailblazing squad of 14 teenagers, selected from four provinces, that travelled to Cuba in September 1964 to compete in the World Junior Amateur Baseball Championships.

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