Perfect Game’s 20th annual WWBA World Championship begins Thursday in Jupiter, Fla. The tournament will feature 88 teams divided into 22 pools, and there will be 58 Canadians participating.
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Edmonton Prospects head coach Ray Brown and director of baseball development Orv Franchuk will not return to the positions with the club in 2019.
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With Canadian head coach Tom Valcke at the helm, Hong Kong’s men’s national team jumped 13 spots in the recently released annual World Baseball Softball Confederation 2018 rankings, shooting up from 41st to 28th, one spot behind Austria and one ahead of Russia.
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Canadian Baseball Network writer Melissa Verge writes that warm summer nights sipping ball park beer and watching topnotch baseball talent are hovering wonderfully on Brandon’s horizon. The Manitoba city will be home to the newest Expedition league team for collegiate players, come May 2019.
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The Toronto Mets placed four players on the all-tournament team - SS Justin Carinci (Ajax, Ont.), OF Ben Sitarenios (Richmond Hill, Ont.), Chong (Markham, Ont.) and RHP Turner Spoljaric (Lisle, Ont.) - at the Perfect Game World Wood Bat Underclass World championship in Florida.
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Dillon Poschenrieder, of the Badlands Baseball Academy, has had a phenomenal year. Not only did his team win provincials, he was also selected to play for his home province at the nationals in the Maritimes this summer. The Unity, Sask., native capped off the year by being selected to play for Team Prairies at Tournament 12 at Rogers Centre in September.
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Canadian Baseball Network editor-in-chief Bob Elliott shares memories of John Gibbons, Ben Johnson, Carl Lewis, Duncan McNaughton and a scouting report on Junior National Team alum and 2018 Milwaukee Brewers draft pick Connor Sparks (Saskatoon, Sask.).
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The B.C. baseball landscape is about to change in a big way with the launch of the Fraser Valley Baseball Academy. Shawn Corness and Corey Eckstein, two men who have been on opposite sides in baseball in the province for years, are the central figures in a merger of Chilliwack and Abbotsford baseball.
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John Jepson was recently presented with the Premier Baseball League of Ontario’s (PBLO) Lifetime Achievement Award.
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Canadian Baseball Network writer Matt Betts takes a look at some Intercounty Baseball League teams that have come and gone during the league’s 100-year history.
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Eric Cunningham, Roberto Duncan, Cam Goddard and Chris Horvath helped the Tecumseh seniors win their fifth consecutive Ontario eliminations championship.
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Ron Pegg shares the story of how the roots of the Canadian women’s national baseball team started in Flesherton, Ont., in the early 1990s.
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Canadian Baseball Network contributor Matt Betts writes about the roots of one of the Intercounty Baseball League’s most successful franchises, the Brantford Red Sox.
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The OBA champions were crowned in four age categories over the Labour Day weekend.
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Two teams from British Columbia fared well at a recent Diamond Nation tournament in New Jersey.
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Rawlings is keeping up with baseball's growth spurt in Canada and is re-investing in baseball and softball at a grassroots level.
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Mississauga North won its fourth national championship in the past five years as the Tigers came from behind with two in the seventh to edge the Windsor Selects 6-5 to win the 21U title at Emslie Field in St. Thomas, Ont.
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Campbell Ellis (Georgetown, Ont.), Andrew Haynes (Leaside, Ont.) and Owen MacNeil (Georgetown, Ont.) anchored the Ontario Terriers pitching staff to lead them to a tourney win in New Jersey.
Jack Domenico’s Toronto Maple Leafs have been drawing Intercounty Baseball League fans to The Pits for 50 years. Canadian Baseball Network contributor Matt Betts provides a history of the storied franchise.
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Canadian Baseball Network contributor Matt Betts provides a history of the Intercounty Baseball League’s storied London Majors franchise.
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