Two Toronto Blue Jays stars and a 15-game winner with the Cleveland Guardians are the top candidates for the 2022 Tip O’Neill Award.
The Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame presents this award annually to the player judged to have excelled in individual achievement and team contribution while adhering to baseball’s highest ideals.
Read MoreBefore former Canadian big leaguer Mike Kilkenny passed away in 2018, he shared some amazing stories about his experiences in Major League Baseball with writer Mike Arsenault, including one about his friendship with FBI director J. Edgar Hoover.
Read MoreCanadian Baseball Network editor Kevin Glew’s weekly “But What Do I Know?” column discusses James Paxton, Jim Adduci, Mike Soroka, Larry Walker, Wayne Norton and Pat Hentgen.
Read MoreA memorial service was held for legendary Toronto coach, umpire, scorekeeper and third baseman Joe Sawchuk on Sunday. Bob Elliott shares some of the stories about Sawchuk that were told among friends at the service.
Read MoreRob Thomson (Corunna, Ont.) will become the first Canadian to manage a team in the World Series in 135 years when he leads his Philadelphia Phillies against the Houston Astros in Game 1 of the Fall Classic on Friday. The Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame has more on Thomson and also highlights the top World Series performances by Canadians over the years.
Read MoreColumnist Mark Whicker discusses the Mr. Octobers of years past and writes that Bryce Harper is making a case to be the next one.
Read MoreGallagher: Montreal group not enthused about taking on a full-time team
Read MoreBaseball Canada shares their list of Canadian connections in the MLB playoffs.
Read MoreCanadian Baseball Network lead writer Matt Betts takes a look at who might be on Canada’s roster at the next World Baseball Classic which is set to take place in March.
Read MoreColumnist Mark Whicker shares his opinion on the Atlanta Braves’ recent contract extension with 21-year-old outfielder Michael Harris and discusses how Alex Anthopoulos (Montreal, Que.) has assembled a Braves’ roster that is set up to be a contender for many years to come.
Read MoreJoey Votto’s march toward 2,000 games played in the majors has been stalled by season-ending rotator-cuff surgery, but this is an occasion to pay tribute to one of the people who helped get him to where he is now — his Etobicoke Rangers coach Bob Smyth. Canadian Baseball Network writer Danny Gallagher recently caught up with Smyth.
Read MoreCincinnati Reds first baseman Joey Votto is set to play his 1,989th major league game on Sunday, which will break Maple Ridge, B.C., native Larry Walker’s record for most games played by a Canadian.
Read MoreMelville, Sask., native Terry Puhl will be inducted into the Houston Astros Hall of Fame on Saturday.
Read MoreInfielder Charles Leblanc (Laval, Que.) made his MLB debut with the Miami Marlins on Saturday. Canadian Baseball Network writer Danny Gallagher recently caught up with the latest Canadian big leaguer to talk about the 26-year-old’s long trek to The Show.
Read MoreWith his 24th save of the 2022 campaign on Sunday, Toronto Blue Jays closer Jordan Romano (Markham, Ont.) broke the record he shared with ex-Montreal Expos reliever Claude Raymond (St. Jean, Que.) for most saves in a season by a Canadian pitcher for a Canadian major league team.
Read MoreThe Miami Marlins have called up INF/OF Charles Leblanc (Laval, Que.). He will join fellow Canuck Zach Pop on the Marlins’ roster.
Read More“Matt Stairs must feel at home in Alberta.
The former big league slugger, who was at Seaman Stadium in Okotoks, Alta., as a special guest at the Western Canadian Baseball League’s All-Star Game on Saturday, has a brother that lives in Calgary and he and his wife, Lisa, were staying with his ex-sister-in-law in Okotoks.
It was also in Alberta with the Oakland A’s triple-A Edmonton Trappers in 1996 that Stairs turned his professional baseball career around. At age 28, after seven seasons in the minors with only short stretches of big league action, he decided to open up his batting stance.”
Read MoreSt. Thomas, Ont., native Jack Graney will be honoured posthumously with the National Baseball Hall of Fame’s 2022 Ford C. Frick Award in a ceremony on July 23 in Cooperstown, N.Y.
Read MoreElliott: 2022 Draft Blog, Day III
Read More“For “Junior” it was to be his first game coaching on a Kingston ball diamond in more than 40 years. That’s quite a break between games at a familiar playground for hometown boy Bob Elliott, who long ago outgrew the nickname he earned in his youth as the namesake son of a local sporting hero. (“Niblet,” too, is all but forgotten, although Elliott is known to answer to “Knobber” when in the company of guys who played for him back in the day.)”
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