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Wilson: Remembering when the Toronto Blue Jays played in Regina

“It was an event that baseball fans in Saskatchewan had never dreamed was possible, and it went so well that they ended up experiencing it twice.

A press conference in January of 1989 was held at Regina’s Sheraton Centre to announce that the Toronto Blue Jays were coming to play an exhibition game at Taylor Field – home of the Canadian Football League’s Saskatchewan Roughriders – in May.”

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Elliott: O'Neill, Saunders remember 'their scout' Wayne Norton

Major leaguers Michael Saunders (Victoria, BC) and Tyler O’Neill (Maple Ridge, BC) were drafted by legendary Canadian and Seattle Mariners scout Wayne Norton (Langley, BC). Saunders was there last week when Doug Mathieson’s Langley Blaze travelled to Arizona to play Seattle Mariners’ first and second-year pros in the annual Wayne Norton memorial game.

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Elliott: McDonagh surprises in Surprise, becomes newest KC Royal

“Ryan McDonagh’s goal when he boarded a plane from to Phoenix on March 16?

“Improve my stock for this year’s draft,” said McDonagh from Surprise, Ariz. this week.

Well, McDonagh won’t hear his name called on July 13 -- unless it is over a loudspeaker as the P.A. announcer says:

“Now pitching for youuuuur Surprise Royals ... No. 63 ... Ryan McDonagh.”

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