Four baseball legends are among the 2025 Alberta Sports Hall of Fame inductees that will be honoured on Saturday.
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Welland Jackfish general manager Jason McKay has been named Intercounty Baseball League Executive of the Year.
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“Since the time that he first swatted a ball off a tee, Gabriel Larocque has dreamed of the places the game might take him.
In recent years, the 16-year-old Grade 12 student at St. Charles College has emerged as one of the top catchers in his age bracket in the country, invitations to showcase events and such flooding in with regularity.”
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Each year at the Canadian Futures Showcase, we try to highlight a few players by asking them a series of questions. Here are the first four players that Bob Elliott connected with.
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The Intercounty Baseball League has announced its 2025 All-IBL First and Second teams.
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“The high school scene saw a seismic shift when the Toronto Blue Jays created Tournament 12 in 2014.
Later, it was renamed the Canadian Futures Showcase and it rolled into action earlier this month as the Blue Jays again showed they are solid corporate citizens.
Whether the player is from Comox, B.C., North York, Ont., or Dartmouth, N.S., the registration is the same for all players attending the event.
And now comes Baseball Canada’s Road to Okotoks, a true team national championship for 2026 for 19U players. It will be king of the hill, the best of all the events.”
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Hamilton Cardinals right-hander Owen Boon (London, Ont.) has been named the 2025 Intercounty Baseball League MVP.
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“The decision to get George Selkirk's name on a baseball field in Huntsville, Ont. wasn't a simple exercise.
After close to 10 years of coaxing and prodding by Peter Haynes of Toronto, a Huntsville property owner and president of the Muskoka Hornets Baseball Association, town council voted 7-2 on Sept. 22 to rename the F Diamond the Selkirk Diamond in honour of the New York Yankees legend.”
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Evan Morrison (Mitchell, Ont.), of the Chatham-Kent Barnstormers, has been named the Intercounty Baseball League’s Rookie of the Year.
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Bob Elliott: Remembering Baseball Canada executive, coach, GM, international administrator Jim Baba (Moose Jaw, Sask.)
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“As the dust settles from a whirlwind season that took our family across Tennessee, Alabama, and Ohio, I find myself facing a quieter, unexpected challenge: the stillness.”
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London Majors right-hander Skylar Janisse (Maidstone, Ont.) has been named Intercounty Baseball League Closer of the Year.
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Welland Jackfish skipper Brian Essery has been named Intercounty Baseball League Manager of the Year.
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“Like many Canadian kids who loved baseball, Mitchell Rauckman grew up as a fan of the Toronto Blue Jays.
Even though he is primarily a pitcher himself, the Saskatoon native always enjoyed watching slugger Josh Donaldson.
He’s been to Rogers Centre to watch his favourite team play, always hoping to one day play on the same turf.
Rauckman is one of three Saskatchewan products, along with Matthew Tran and Aiden Kilshaw, who will get the chance to do that in the Canadian Futures Showcase.”
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Ontario Blue Jays switch-hitting slugger Mikey Batiste is garnering a lot of attention from scouts at the Canadian Futures Showcase. His father, Michael, played in the NBA and is a coach with the Toronto Raptors. Bob Elliott spoke with both father and son at the Rogers Centre on Tuesday.
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The Welland Jackfish have won the Intercounty Baseball League championship.
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The Welland Jackfish defeated the Barrie Baycats 5-1 on Saturday night. The Jackfish are now just one win from winning the Intercounty Baseball League championship.
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“It’s admittedly going to sting for a while.
However, Team Alberta has nothing to hang their heads for after returning home with a silver medal in the first-ever women’s baseball event at the Canada Summer Games in St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador.”
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Brendan Luther’s one-out single in the bottom of the eighth scored Robert Mullen for the go-ahead run in the Welland Jackfish’s 3-2 victory over the Barrie Baycats on Thursday night. The win gives the Jackfish a 2-1 lead in the best-of-seven Intercounty Baseball League finals.
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They have been pioneers and trailblazers for baseball in communities across the province.
The Saskatchewan Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum celebrated its 40th induction ceremony with the Class of 2025 in mid-August.
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