Current Junior National Team catcher Nathan Flewelling didn’t wait long to hear his name on day two of the Major League Baseball Draft as the Tampa Bay Rays used their third-round selection (94th overall) on the Red Deer, Alta., native.
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The Philadelphia Phillies made Toronto-born Dante Nori their first-round selection, 27th overall on day one of the Major League Baseball Draft making the Northville, Michigan high schooler the first Canadian player taken in the annual draft.
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Baseball Canada provides a preview of the 2024 MLB Draft which begins on Sunday.
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Mia Valcke (St. Marys, Ont.) collected three hits in four at bats, as Team Red defeated Team Black 10-4 in the final game of the Women’s National Team Selection Camp on Sunday at Ottawa Stadium.
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Team Black got their first win of the Women’s National Team Selection Camp with a 3-2 victory over Team Red in a closely contested pitching duel between the two sides.
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Team Red made it two in a row with a 9-6 win over Team Black in the second intersquad game of the Women’s National Team Selection Camp in Ottawa on Friday.
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The first of four intersquad games at the Women’s National Team Selection Camp featured a back-and-forth affair, with Team Red ultimately coming up on top of Team Black, 10-4.
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The Women’s National Team Selection Camp started on Wednesday in Ottawa.
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The North Shore Twins will retire the number of legendary coach John Haar on Wednesday.
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Baseball Canada has announced the names of the 27 athletes that have been invited to the Junior National Team’s (U-18) Selection Camp set to take place at USA Baseball’s National Training Complex in Cary, North Carolina from July 24 to July 30. Following camp, 20 athletes will be selected to represent Canada at the World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) Americas U-18 Baseball World Cup Qualifier in Panama City, Panama from August 2 to August 11.
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“Rod Heisler saw his photo hanging inside the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum and did a double-take.
“What’s that guy doing there?” Heisler remembers thinking.
It was induction day in St. Marys, and despite wearing the maple leaf in international competition more times than any other Canadian ballplayer, Heisler still could not believe he was about join former Blue Jays Russell Martin, Jimmy Key, and the rest of the class of 2024.
“It’s overwhelming for me to be inducted along with these folks, at the same time as Buck is being honoured. It’s a thrill,” Heisler said, referring to Jack Graney Award winner Buck Martinez.”
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“When Julianna Scott heard that Baseball Canada had named its Women’s National Team Selection Camp roster, her first thought was to find the post on Instagram and look for her friends and teammates.
She didn’t expect to see her name near the bottom of the first column on the official announcement post.
The Spruce Grove, Alta., product couldn’t believe her eyes.”
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“No hurricane, earthquake or adversity you could throw her way was going to keep Ashley Stephenson from carving out her place in Canadian baseball history — that much was made clear as she was officially inducted into the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame on Saturday.
The first-ever member of Canada’s Women’s National Team and just the second woman to be immortalized in the hall individually, Stephenson continues to be a trailblazer in the sport north of the border, adding another line to what was already a loaded resume.”
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Canadian Baseball Network editor-in-chief Bob Elliott writes about 2024 Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame inductee Rod Heisler and his tremendous “Fruit of the Loom” pick-off move.
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Baseball Canada has announced the athletes that will be in Ottawa from July 3 to July 7 to compete in the Women’s National Team Selection Camp.
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Tomorrow in St. Marys, Ont., Ashley Stephenson (Mississauga, Ont.) will become the first Women’s National Team member to be inducted into the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame. We thought we would re-run Melissa Verge’s article from February 6 when it was announced that Stephenson had been elected.
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Women’s National Team members Sena Catterall (Pierrefonds, Que.), Alizée Gélinas (Trois-Riviéres, Que.) and Raine Padgham (Abbotsford, B.C.) recently starred in the 2023 Australian Women’s Baseball Showcase.
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“Howard Birnie’s induction into the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame next month is believed to be the first such honour for a snack bar attendant.
Known as Howie to his many diamond friends and associates, Birnie has spent innumerable hours over almost countless years serving cold drinks, doling out penny and nickel candy and making change in the small, red-brick snack bar sandwiched between the first base grandstand and the bottom of a high hill at Talbot Park, home of the Leaside Baseball Association (LBA) in east end Toronto.
He spent a similar amount of time dragging and watering the infield, pounding the sand around the mound and home plate, anchoring the bases and chalking the foul lines at the venerable sandlot often called “The Shrine” by some in the Toronto baseball community.”
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The Junior National Team fell just short of a comeback as they dropped the last game of the Dominican Pro Academy Camp 6-5 against the Chicago Cubs DSL.
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On Monday, the Junior National Team had a tie and a win in their Victoria Day doubleheader that was part of their Dominican Pro Academy Camp.
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