Nick Pivetta will get his first shot at wearing his country’s colours at the senior level this spring, when the native of Victoria, BC suits up for Team Canada at the upcoming World Baseball Classic.
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As February approached last year, Eric Wood was trying to get back to the basics of baseball, coming off of a less-than-ideal season, as we head into 2017 it's a different story.
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A list of current and former big leaguers took part in the festivities Saturday evening as the 15th annual National Teams Awards Banquet and Fundraiser took place at the Renaissance Toronto Downtown.
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3B Jamie Romak (London, Ont.) says that the fourth annual World Baseball Classic is the highest stage" to play on." The London Badgers grad has signed a contract with the San Diego Padres.
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Maxx Tissenbaum was at a ball park. Nothing new there ... except he was there this week at Fenway to see his sis Molly Tissenbaum tend the twine for Harvard.
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Built atop an old diamond adjacent to Merriton High school in the cities west end, St. Catharines Community Park serves both as a reminder of the New York-Penn league’s brief but successful renaissance in the Great White North, and an interesting footnote in the history of Canadian baseball.
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Smith, 72, died Jan. 2 in Cambridge, Ont. and is best remembered as a career NHL assistant coach, but he was a heck of a ballplayer too.
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LHP Andrew Albers (North Battleford, Sask.) was with the Minnesota Twins in 2016 has signed a free agent contract with the Atlanta Braves.
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For a second time 1B Joey Votto (Etobicoke, Ont.) is the most influential Canadian in baseball in this our 10th annual ranking of the top 100.
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New Brunswick's Vincent Churchill McIntyre was, in fact, the first Canuck to officially break the colour barrier when he suited up for the Class-C Sherbrooke Canadians of the Border league on June 1st, 1946.
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As the Winter Meetings drew to a close C Maxx Tissenbaum had some news, signeing to officially become a member of the Colorado Rockies organization. The former Toronto Mets and Stony Brook Seawolves INF spent this season with the Quebec Capitales.
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RHP Cal Quantrill (Port Hope, Ont.) went eighth over all in North America to the San Diego Padres. The former Ontario Terrier was 0-5 with a 5.11 ERA in 12 starts with the rookie-claass Arizona League Padres, class-A Tri City and class-A Fort Wayne.
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This year's Austrailian Baseball League All-Star game will feature a pair of Canadian imports as catcher Mike Reeves and outfielder Malik Collymore were named to the circuits World team on Wednesday.
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The Vancouver Canandians are looking for a qualified groundskeeper to look after Nat Bailey. Applicants must eliminate all bad-hop singles for C's pitchers.
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Canadians signed, were released, were added to 40-man rosters, were named major-league hitting coach and one -- Stubby Clapp (Windsor, Ont.) -- was hired to manage triple-A Memphis. Clapp's bobblehead from his playing days.
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Quality over quantity as they say, and it couldn’t be more true as far as Canadians went in the Arizona Fall League this year.
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Ontario Terriers were greeted by a familiar face in Scott Thorman. As a 12-year-old Thorman's hitting coach was Rick Johnston and now Thorman, 34, spoke to Johnston's players.
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Significant names from the baseball world, past present and future, descended on Victoria on Saturday for the 2nd Annual HarbourCats Hotstove.
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Tyler O'Neill (Maple Ridge, BC) repeats as Echlin winner, CBN honors to RHP Nick Pivetta (Victoria, BC), RHP Jamo Taillon (The Woodlands, Tex.), Carter Bell (Courtney, BC), Karl Gelinas (Iberville, Que.)
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