Elliott: Larry Dierker remembers HOFer Joe Morgan’s mound visit
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Elliott: Claire Smith, first Spink winner, hit a grand slam homer at Doubleday Field in Cooperstown on induction weekend.
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Toronto Blue Jays lefty Hyun-Jin Ryu is one of three finalists for the American League Cy Young award, while Blue Jays manager Charlie Montoyo is a finalist for AL manager of the year honours. So what are their odds of winning these awards?
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Langley Blaze and Junior National Team graduate Tyler O’Neill has won the National League Gold Glove Award for left fielders.
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Canadian Baseball Network contributor Danny Gallagher shares that Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame inductee Murray Cook (Sackville, N.B.) has been let go by the Detroit Tigers after serving as a scout for them for 13 years.
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Mel Rojas Jr., a left-handed hitter who stands at 6-foot-2 and 225 pounds, batted .349, hit a league-leading 47 homers and drove in a league-high 135 runs for the KT Witz in this his fourth season in the Korean Baseball Organization. Canadian Baseball Network Danny Gallagher writes that Rojas Jr. might be a good fit with the Toronto Blue Jays.
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Toronto Blue Jays TV play-by-play broadcaster Dan Shulman (Toronto, Ont.) has been named one of eight finalists for the National Baseball Hall of Fame’s prestigious Ford C. Frick Award.
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Canadian Baseball Network editor Kevin Glew’s weekly “But What Do I Know?” column discusses Tyler O’Neill, James Paxton, Dave Pagan, Dave McKay, Pascual Perez and Marco Estrada.
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It was 49 years ago that Fergie Jenkins (Chatham, Ont.) became the first Canadian to win the National League Cy Young Award.
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Langley Blaze and Junior National Team graduate Tyler O’Neill has won the Fielding Bible Award for major league left fielders.
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Two previous winners of the coveted Dick Howser Trophy, Mike Zunino and Mark Prior, made waves in the 2020 World Series. This award is presented annually by The Game Headwear to the standout NCAA Division I baseball student-athlete who best exemplifies the ideals of the late Howser who was a Florida State All-America shortstop and manager of the 1985 world champion Kansas City Royals.
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Canadian Baseball Network contributor Matt Snoei writes that it was difficult not to be “romantic about baseball” after little-known Tampa Bay Ray Brett Phillips supplied the game-winning hit for his club in their walk-off win in Game 4 of the World Series.
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Canadian Baseball Network editor Kevin Glew recently caught up with former Montreal Expos pitcher Larry Landreth to talk about his baseball career that began in the sandlots of Stratford, Ont.
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Canadian Baseball Network editor Kevin Glew’s “But What Do I Know?” column discusses Tyler O’Neill, Jamie Romak, Joe Siddall, Fergie Jenkins, Phil Marchildon, Lefty Wilkie and Jack Kent-Cooke.
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Right-hander Bill Atkinson (Chatham, Ont.) had help from his mom and his community to play parts of four seasons with the Montreal Expos from 1976 to 1979. Canadian Baseball Network editor Kevin Glew recently caught up with Atkinson to talk about his career.
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Langley Blaze and Junior National Team graduate Tyler O’Neill has been named a finalist for a Gold Glove Award for National League left fielders.
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Baseball Canada’s Adam Morissette provides a list of the Canadian players participating in the Fall instructional league camps of major league teams.
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Hamilton, Ont.-based author Scott Morissey’s book of World Series trivia was recently published. It is called 114 World Series in One Book: Fun, Interesting and Amazing Facts.
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The Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame has compiled a list of all of the Canadians that have played for the Tampa Bay Rays and Los Angeles Dodgers over the years.
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Former Grand Rapids Chicks and Fort Wayne Daisies third baseman Betty (Petryna) Allen Mullins passed away on September 4 at the age of 89, according to the official All-American Girls Professional Baseball League Twitter account. Born on November 26, 1930 in Liberty, Sask., Mullins played parts of two seasons in the AAGPBL.
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