Baseball Canada announced on Thursday that Jim Baba, Trevor Grieve and Shari Reiniger have been selected as officials by the World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) for the baseball competition at the Summer Olympics in Tokyo.
Read MoreLisa Turbitt (Burlington, Ont.) is set to make history in March when she will become the first female umpire to work a World Baseball Classic event.
Read MoreBaseball Canada congratulated Larry Walker (Maple Ridge, B.C.), who is currently a coach for the organization’s senior national team, on his election to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown on Tuesday.
Read MoreThe World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) released their updated baseball rankings on Thursday. The Canadian national women’s team program is ranked second in the world, while the men’s is ranked 12th.
Read MoreRawlings Canada and Baseball Canada have extended their partnership and Rawlings will continue as the official baseball of Baseball Canada.
Read MoreCanadian Baseball Network writer Elisabeth Rositsan caught up with veteran right-hander Scott Richmond (Vancouver, B.C.) at the press conference prior to the Baseball Canada National Teams Awards Banquet on Saturday. After narrowly missing pitching for Canada at the 2008 Olympics, Richmond is hoping to help the national team qualify for the Olympics this summer in Tokyo.
Read MoreA capacity crowd filled the Northern Lights Ballroom at the Toronto Marriott City Centre Hotel on Saturday evening as national team players, current and past, friends and corporate partners came together to celebrate and support Baseball Canada’s Junior and Senior National Teams.
Read MoreKevin Glew’s “But What Do I Know?” column discusses Scott Mathieson, Andrew Albers, Jason Dickson, Derek Jeter and Nigel Wilson.
Read MoreBaseball Canada has unveiled its calendar of events for 2020.
Read MoreRawlings Sports Canada and Baseball Canada have taken major steps to increase the equipment and the technology used by their National teams representing Canada around the world.
Read MoreThe auction items have been revealed for Baseball Canada’s 2020 National Teams Banquet and Fundraiser.
Read MoreIt was a decade of unprecedented success for Canada’s national teams. Baseball Canada’s Adam Morissette recounts the men’s and women’s programs greatest successes between 2010 and 2019.
Read MoreCanadian Baseball Network writer Danny Gallagher recently caught up with former WHA star and Lang, Sask., native Dennis Sobchuk who was also an excellent baseball player during his youth.
Read MoreMonterrey, Mexico will host the 2020 World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) Women’s Baseball World Cup next November, the international federation announced yesterday at the III WBSC World Baseball Softball Congress in Sakai, Osaka, Japan. The Canadian Women’s National Team gained entry into the event last summer via a third place finish at the COPABE Americas Women’s Baseball World Cup Qualifier in Aguascalientes, Mexico.
Read MoreCanada will play Colombia, Cuba and Venezuela in Group B next March at the WBSC Baseball Americas Olympic Qualifier as the international federation today announced the groups and schedule for the event that will determine one spot in the Tokyo 2020 Olympic baseball competition.
Read MoreHost sites were revealed for six future Baseball Canada National Championships on the weekend of November 9-10 as the national organization held its annual Fall Meetings at Château Mont-Sainte-Anne.
Read MoreBaseball Canada handed out some hardware last weekend at the annual Baseball Canada Fall Meeting, hosted by Baseball Québec at the Château Mont-Sainte-Anne.
Read MoreLogan Wade’s two-run triple in the bottom of the eighth broke a 1-1 tie and ultimately gave Australia a 3-1 win to eliminate the Canadian Men’s Baseball Team from the WSBC Premier12 Tournament.
Read MoreCanada’s Men’s Baseball Team ran into some quality pitching while Korea used timely hitting to come away with a 3-1 victory in WBSC Premier12 Group C play at the Gocheok Sky Dome.
Read MorePhillippe Aumont (Gatineau, Que.) was simply dominant firing eight scoreless innings on the mound with nine strikeouts to lead Canada’s Men’s Baseball Team to a 3-0 win over Cuba in the first game of the WBSC Premier12.
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