The Winnipeg Goldeyes have re-signed right-hander James Bradwell (North Vancouver, B.C.).
Read MoreThe Ottawa Titans have re-signed franchise cornerstone A.J. Wright.
Read MoreOn Monday, the Intercounty Baseball League (IBL), which has been in operation since 1919, announced that it is now a fully professional league that will be known as the Canadian Baseball League.
Read MoreThe Winnipeg Goldeyes have signed right-handed reliever Willian Suárez.
Read MoreLed by the Women’s National Team, Canada has long been one of the global leaders in women’s baseball. That presence will only grow on Thursday night as the Women’s Pro Baseball League (WPBL) conducts its inaugural draft.
Read MoreThe Ottawa Titans announced the signing of two pitchers on Tuesday. They have also traded catcher Victor Cerny (Winnipeg, Man.) to the Windy City ThunderBolts.
Read More“It could have been easy for Orv Franchuk to dislike or even hate baseball right from the very start.
Growing up on the farm near Wandering River, he remembers being six or seven years old when his older brother would drag him outside to play “catch.”
The youngster would get placed in front of the garage door while his hand-eye coordination developed, which made for some bruises on his shins and shoulders.
“I’d be crying and go into the house and get cleaned up by mom,” Franchuk told Alberta Dugout Stories: The Podcast. “My dad would push me back out there.”
Read MoreThe Winnipeg Goldeyes have signed right-handed pitcher Noah Millikan.
Read MoreThe Winnipeg Goldeyes have signed right-handed relief pitcher James Colyer.
Read MoreLongtime minor league manager and Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame inductee Bill Slack (Petrolia, Ont.) passed away on Sunday at the age of 92.
Read MoreIan Wilson, of Alberta Dugout Stories, takes a look at some of the players that honed their skills with Dodgers’ and Blue Jays’ farm teams in Alberta before earning World Series rings.
Read MoreThe Winnipeg Goldeyes have unveiled their 2026 schedule.
Read MoreThe Montreal Expos, the subject of a newly released Netflix documentary called “Who Killed the Montreal Expos?”, had longstanding connections to Alberta.
Read MoreThe Winnipeg Goldeyes have acquired outfielder Max Jung-Goldberg.
Read MoreThe Ottawa Titans have unveiled their 2026 schedule.
Read MoreIt wouldn’t be much of a stretch to say that Don Drysdale’s career in professional baseball started and ended in Montreal.
As a fiery, fresh-faced teen, he pitched his first full pro season with the triple-A Montreal Royals in 1955.
And sadly, 38 years later, he suffered a fatal heart attack in a Montreal hotel room while he was part of the Los Angeles Dodgers’ broadcast team.
Both Drysdale’s season with the Royals and the night of his death are detailed thoroughly in Mark Whicker’s excellent new book, Don Drysdale: Up and In: The Life of a Dodgers Legend.
Read MoreRight-hander Brock Dykxhoorn (Goderich, Ont.) recently registered his 50th win in the Chinese Professional Baseball League — no other Canadian has reached that milestone.
Read MoreWith the Buffalo Bisons’ 5-4 victory over the Lehigh Valley IronPigs on Sunday afternoon at Sahlen Field, Casey Candaele earned his 313th victory to became the winningest manager in the Bisons modern era.
Read MoreDid you know that the first night baseball game in Canada was played in Vancouver in 1931?
Or that Jackie Robinson was rumoured to be the first manager of the Pacific Coast League’s Vancouver Mounties in 1956?
These are just two of the engrossing and little-told stories shared in an outstanding new book called, “Play Ball! The Amazing Stories and Captivating Characters Who Have Made Baseball a Winning Ticket in Vancouver for Over 100 Years.”
Read More“History was made in the backfields of the Philadelphia Phillies’ spring training grounds on the weekend.
Tigers catcher Brady Cerkownyk was posing for post-game pictures after the seven-inning affair was in the books as his Detroit Tigers no-hit the Phillies in a Florida Complex League game.”
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