Infielder Brendan Lawson (Toronto, Ont.) is the No. 2 ranked prospect on the 2024 Canadian Baseball Network Draft List, heading into the draft that will begin on Sunday. We thought we would rerun an article that we published about him back in September.
Read MoreHappy Canada Day!
We celebrate the day with Bob Elliott’s 24th annual All-Canadian Canada Day lineup.
Read MoreCanadian Baseball Network editor-in-chief Bob Elliott remembers Orlando Cepeda, the Hall of Fame slugger, who passed away on Friday at the age of 86.
Read MoreCanadian Baseball Network editor Bob Elliott shares some news, notes and memories from his recent baseball trip to Alberta.
Read MoreCanadian Baseball Network editor-in-chief Bob Elliott pays tribute to Adrien (Tic) Langlois, who was the best Kingston Collegiate Blue high school football coach he never played for. Langlois passed away on June 17 at the age of 86.
Read MoreCanadian Baseball Network editor-in-chief Bob Elliott’s remembers Willie Mays.
Read MoreThe Mississauga North Tigers are headed back to the Connie Mack World Series in Farmington, New Mexico.
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.
Read More“There is not a better feeling in the game than winning the final game of the season.
And conversely, there is probably not a worse feeling than losing when you are a victory away from playing in the championship final.
Tucker Zdunich felt the latter after his Reinhardt Eagles dropped the final two games of the AVISTA NAIA World Series in Lewiston, Id. The Eagles won three straight before losing back-to-back games to the Tennessee Wesleyan Bulldogs. A win in either would have put them in the title game.
No matter now. What was then was then. The page in his diamond book had been turned and he returned home to where he has played the previous 10 years going all the way back to bantam -- the Okotoks Dawgs.”
Read MoreFormer Okotoks Academy Dawgs C-OF Logan Grant (Chestermere, Alta.) is back with the Dawgs after a breakout season with the Bellevue Bruins. Canadian Baseball Network editor-in-chief Bob Elliott caught up with Grant on Saturday.
Read More“The uniform colour black is in at the Okotoks Dawgs Academy.
There are different teams of different colors but the one all teenagers want to wear is the Vanderbilt Commodores-style black uniforms.
There is a Dawgs Red team, a Dawgs White team, but THE most desired team is Dawgs Black.
So, how to explain the Okotoks Dawgs starting catcher on Friday night against the Lethbridge Bulls at Spitz Stadium?
Jacob Wrubleski played eight years at the Dawgs Academy. Only in his final year did he wear black. He wore red normally or white the other seven years.”
Read MoreSeven Canadians were on the rosters as season kicked off in the six-team MLB Draft League.
Read More“Way back in 1999-2000, Jose Bautista was a two-way man for coach Jeff Johnson’s Chipola College Indians.
Bautista filled the gaps with line drives, showed light-tower power to left and if needed would be used as a closer in the Florida state JUCO championships ... hitting 96 MPH.
And now all these home runs later, all these teams later (eight ... but he is really only associated with one) and all these years later, he is still a two-way man.”
Read MoreOne member of the PWHL’s Minnesota squad that captured the league’s first championship was Nicki Nightengale, the daughter of legendary USA Today ball scribe Bob Nightengale.
Read MoreFieldhouse Pirates alum Zach Cameron (Hamilton, Ont.), a fifth-year senior at Niagara University, recently broke the school’s career saves record. Canadian Baseball Network editor-in-chief Bob Elliott caught up with him in Buffalo.
Read MoreElliott: Day Oner George Farelli hands over reins to Canadians in Minors
Read MoreElliott, CPBL Showcase Day IV: Bigras, Gravelle, Hughes, Scott
Read MoreElliott, CPBL Showcase Day II: Jacob, Kwinter, Lessard, Sikkema
Read MoreCanadian Baseball Network editor-in-chief Bob Elliott shines the spotlight on four of the players participating in the CPBL Showcase in Dorchester, Ont., this weekend.
Read More“At the moment, Jake Hanley is a two-way man.
His fastball has been clocked at 95 mph for his William Mason High School Comets in Mason, Ohio, north of Cincinnati. And the 6-foot-5, 232-pounder shows power at the plate.
Besides being a two-way man on the field, thanks to his father Todd Haney, of Dartmouth, N.S., he’s a man of two countries too.”
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