Here is the latest news from the Saskatchewan Baseball Hall of Fame.
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“The inbox of Durham College’s head baseball coach has been especially flooded over the past couple of months.
Players from three Ontario Colleges Athletic Association baseball programs — Centennial College, George Brown and Seneca — that were scrapped have reached out to Scott Cawker looking for a new place to finish out their collegiate career.
He’s had at least 10 players reach out, Cawker said, since the cuts were made a couple of months ago, due to financial constraints brought about by a cap on international students.”
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Imagine some of the biggest stars of the game coming to Alberta to play exhibition games. Instead of Shohei Ohtani, Mike Trout, Paul Skenes and Vladimir Guerrero, Jr., it was Reggie Jackson, Joe Carter, Mark McGwire and Ken Griffey, Jr. who suited up at Alberta’s biggest fields. Take a trip down memory lane with Ian Wilson, of Alberta Dugout Stories, as he shines the spotlight on 10 times big league clubs visited Alberta.
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Canadian Baseball Network writer Matt Betts summarizes the top performances by Canadians in the U.S. college ranks from the past week in his latest “Big Man On Campus (BMOC)” column.
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Great Lake Canadians grad and Cloud County T-Birds outfielder Matt Evans (Tillsonburg, Ont.) has been named the Canadian Baseball Network college Player of the Week.
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The Intercounty Baseball League’s Toronto Maple Leafs have re-signed infielder Dan Marra (Toronto, Ont.).
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The Centennial, George Brown and Seneca baseball programs have all been scrapped due to budget cuts. They had competed in the Ontario Colleges Athletic Association Men’s Baseball League.
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Canadian Baseball Network editor Kevin Glew’s weekly “But What Do I Know?” column discusses Liam Hicks, Otto Lopez, Tyler O’Neill, Michael Soroka, Jason Dickson and Dick Fowler.
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Canadian Baseball Network columnist Patrick Kennedy recently caught up with unheralded Kingston multisport legend Jack Lynch.
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The two games had very different scripts on Saturday, but the UBC Thunderbirds managed to pull out two more wins on the road, taking down the Warner Pacific Knights for the series sweep.
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“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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The Intercounty Baseball League’s Toronto Maple Leafs have re-signed catcher Justin Marra (Toronto, Ont.).
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The Intercounty Baseball League’s Hamilton Cardinals have hired Jaime Lever (Vieira) as their new director of player development.
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The Okotoks Dawgs have signed Brady Baltus, Matt Van Slyke (Whitby, Ont.) and Matt Marsh (Havelock, Ont.).
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The UBC Thunderbirds won both halves of their Friday doubleheader, taking their first ever conference games against the Warner Pacific University Knights by scores of 12-0 and 8-4.
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Veteran left-hander Travis Seabrooke (Peterborough, Ont.) has announced his retirement.
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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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Okotoks Dawgs Red beat the Okotoks Black in the final of the 140-team 12U West Coast Premier tournament in Phoenix, Ariz.
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Milwaukee Brewers’ prized prospect Tyler Black (Stouffville, Ont.) will be sidelined for six-to-eight weeks with a hamate fracture in his right hand.
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“It doesn’t matter what team Tyler O’Neill is with; he still homers on Opening Day.
The Maple Ridge, B.C., native, who signed a three-year, $49.5-million contract with the Baltimore Orioles in December, belted a three-run home run off Toronto Blue Jays right-hander Jose Berrios in the third inning of yesterday’s season opener at Rogers Centre.
That round-tripper helped the O’s to a 12-2 win and added to O’Neill’s already MLB record by homering on his sixth consecutive Opening Day.”
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