Canadian Baseball Network editor-in-chief Bob Elliott recounts Toronto native Rob Butler’s trek to the big leagues, which included playing for his hometown team in the 1993 World Series.
Read More
It’s likely the strongest crop of Tip O’Neill Award candidates in the history of the award. Six players born in Canada enjoyed outstanding major league seasons in 2021. Who do you think was the best Canadian player in 2021?
Read More
The Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame will be holding their 2021 induction ceremony virtually tonight.
Read More
Canadian Baseball Network editor Kevin Glew’s weekly “But What Do I Know?” column discusses Marty Healy, Joey Votto, Jordan Romano, Larry Walker, Fergie Jenkins, Jarry Park and Aaron Loup.
Read More
Ranging from Etobicoke, Ont., native Joey Votto’s comeback year to the outstanding breakthrough seasons fashioned by Vladimir Guerrero Jr. (Montreal, Que.), Tyler O’Neill (Maple Ridge, B.C.) and others, the decade from 2021 to 2030 should rival the outstanding 10-year span of remarkable achievements of Canadian MLB stars from 2001 to 2010, writes Canadian Baseball Network contributor Neil Munro.
Read More
On Remembrance Day, the Canadian Baseball Network remembers Penetanguishene, Ont., native Phil Marchildon who was both an ace big league pitcher and a Second World War hero.
Read More
Joey Votto (Etobicoke, Ont.) has been named winner of the Cincinnati Reds’ Joe Nuxhall Good Guy Award.
Read More
Vladimir Guerrero Jr. (Montreal, Que.) has been named the winner of the American League Hank Aaron Award.
Read More
Atlanta Braves pitcher Mike Soroka and assistant trainer Mike Frostad, who are from Calgary and Medicine Hat respectively, have been savoring their team’s 2021 World Series title. Ian Wilson, of Alberta Dugout Stories, has the details.
Read More
Fundraising has resumed for Jason Bay Field in Trail, B.C.
Read More
San Francisco Giants president of baseball operations Farhan Zaidi, (Sudbury, Ont.), whose club posted the best record in the game during the regular season, has been named the recipient of MLB’s 2021 Executive of the Year Award.
Read More
Canadian Baseball Network writer Neil Munro compares Markham, Ont., native Jordan Romano’s breakout 2021 season as the Toronto Blue Jays’ closer to that of other great seasons by Canuck big league relievers.
Read More
The Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame will be holding their 2021 induction ceremony virtually on November 16. Here is information about the inductees and how you can register to watch it for free.
Read More
Since the first pitch of Game 1 of the World Series, we have discovered that there are more Canadians working in the Atlanta Braves organization than we originally thought. Danielle Bedasse (Halifax, N.S.) is the Braves director of community affairs & executive director of the Atlanta Braves Foundation, while Carolyn Serra (Ottawa, Ont.) serves as senior director, Ballpark Tours, Braves Heritage & Hall of Fame and as a minor league executive for the club. Robbie Burnstein (Oakville, Ont.) is also an account executive, corporate partnerships at triple-A Gwinnett.
Read More
Who is the most Canadian team in the 2021 World Series? Canadian Baseball Network editor Kevin Glew offers an answer to this question.
Read More
Columnist Bill Clark, a former scout, thinks Stubby Clapp (Windsor, Ont.) would be a good choice to manage the St. Louis Cardinals.
Read More
Like father, like son. Toronto Mets RHP Turner Spoljaric (Lisle, Ont.) and Okotoks Dawgs 1B Ty Doucette (Dartmouth, N.B.) are following in their father’s footsteps and hope to have professional baseball careers.
Read More
Who is the most Canadian of the four teams left in the 2021 postseason? Canadian Baseball Network editor Kevin Glew researched this question and offers an answer.
Read More
Late Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame inductee Jack Graney (St. Thomas, Ont.) is one of eight finalists for the National Baseball Hall of Fame’s 2022 Ford C. Frick Award. The winner will be announced on December 8.
Read More
Vladimir Guerrero Jr. (Montreal, Que.) has been named an American League finalist for the Major League Baseball’s 2021 Hank Aaron Award.
Read More