“He’s a Canadian baseball legend and a former National League batting champ, but Justin Morneau did a double take when he was asked to be the face of an exciting new national championship tournament.
Greg Hamilton – Baseball Canada’s director of national teams and head coach of the Junior National Team – approached the two-time Silver Slugger Award winner to see if he would lend his name to the top prize being handed out at The Road to Okotoks event.
“My first thought is, did Larry Walker turn it down?” said Morneau in downplaying his own impressive career and giving a nod to fellow British Columbian Walker, who was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 2020.”
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