Posts in Major Leagues (MLB)
Author's novel touches on violent future of baseball

Ray Boudreau, who lives in Whitefish, Ont. near Sudbury, has penned “A Future Pastime: A Complicated Baseball Story,” a dystopian sports sci-fi novel about four young boys, who grow up playing soft rules of Alliance Baseball on the same team. When they get older, they are drafted by different major league teams and have to play the hard rules against each other in a World Series final.

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Looking 20 years into future and how sadly first Techno-Ball season ends

Major League Baseball has been changing as data analytics, sport science and new computer-generated, on-field strategies have altered the way the national pastime is played with it’s three true outcomes - walk, strike out or home run and lower attendance at ballparks across North America. Stephen A. Sighfigh looks at what the future could bring for Major League Baseball and its millions of fans across North America.

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In the Heat Part 1 - Could the Jays' new Dunedin stadium defy odds?

Could the Toronto Blue Jays’ forthcoming renovated stadium in Dunedin defy the odds and be a successful financial investment over the long-term for the city? That question, as well as who is actually paying for the upgrades to the Blue Jays’ spring training facilities, is addressed by Canadian Baseball Network writer Jim Cowan in the first of an exclusive five-part series from Dunedin called “In the Heat.”

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R.I.P. Norm King

Passionate Montreal Expos fan and prolific SABR biography writer Norm King passed away on July 31 at age 61 from a rare form of bile duct cancer. The long-time Ottawa resident was the lead editor of the 2016 book, Au Jeu/Play Ball: The 50 Greatest Games in the History of the Montreal Expos.

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Expos' chronicler starting foundation to raise money to combat all cancers

Russ Hansen was heartbroken when friend and Expos catching legend Gary Carter died of brain tumours way too soon at 57 on February 16, 2012. Hansen noticed that other major leaguers were dying of the same dilemma and he has decided he wants to do something about it. The long-time Expos chronicler and photographer from Windsor, Ont. is starting a foundation to raise money to combat all cancers with funds utilized for education, pre-and-post cancer research and equipment.

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