Ontario Terriers and Junior National Team alum Ben Abram (Georgetown, Ont.), who just completed an abbreviated sophomore season with the Oklahoma Sooners, has been named to the 2020 Academic All-Big 12 Second Team.
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Longtime Abbotsford Cardinals coach Corey Eckstein is heading East to begin his new position as the Ontario Blue Jays’ director of player personnel, but he has established a bursary that will reward an Abbotsford Cardinals player each year.
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Ontario Terriers LHP Jordan Woods (Oakville, Ont.) has built his own mound so he can keep his pitching skills sharp during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Canadian Baseball Network editor Kevin Glew’s “But What Do I Know?” column discusses Fergie Jenkins, Gary Carter, Orv Franchuk, Nick Pivetta, Justin Morneau and Pascual Perez.
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The Okotoks Dawgs have provided an update on the status of their 2020 season.
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BC Baseball has provided their latest COVID-19 update.
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The Canadian Women’s National Baseball Team knows how to get it done on the field with a current world ranking of No. 2 and six all-time medals collected at eight Women’s Baseball World Cup events. This group of amazing athletes is now coming together to make a difference off the field for the first-ever TOGETHER FOR WOMEN, an on-line event on Saturday, May 16 that will showcase some of Canada’s top female athletes in support of the Canadian Women’s Foundation.
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Baseball Ontario announced on Thursday that based on the guidelines of the provincial government and public health authorities, the suspension of all in‐person baseball programs will remain in effect through May 31, 2020.
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Ontario Blue Jays RHP Josh Kalmin (Vaughan, Ont.) has committed to further his academic and baseball career at McMaster University.
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Ontario Nationals alum Jaxon Valcke, who recently returned to Stratford, Ont., is disappointed that he won’t have the opportunity to compete for the Western Baseball League’s Victoria HarbourCats this summer. But he’ll now turn his focus to training for his senior season with the UBC Thunderbirds.
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Ken Kendrick has been appointed to the Board of Directors for the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, bringing the total number of directors to 17 for the nonprofit educational institution.
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The West Coast League’s Victoria HarbourCats have cancelled their 2020 season due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Former Waterloo Tigers catcher-third baseman Bob Schnurr has passed away at the age of 63 following a 10-year battle with cancer.
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Over the last eight weeks, Baseball Canada has hosted subject-matter experts on strength and conditioning, pitching, defensive play, catching, vision performance and mental performance in an effort to continue to provide coaches across the country with useful information during the Covid-19 pandemic. The sessions were a resounding success with hundreds of coaches taking advantage of the expertise and information that was provided.
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Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame inductee and legendary Montreal Expos manager Felipe Alou turns 85 today, so we thought we would resurrect this article by Canadian Baseball Network writer Danny Gallagher that discusses Alou’s friendship with fellow Canadian Baseball Hall of Famer Jim Fanning to commemorate the occasion.
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Eleven Canadians cracked Baseball America’s recently released list of the top 500, 2020 MLB draft prospects. Canadian Baseball Network editor Kevin Glew takes a look at the Canuck talent on the list.
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Tournament 12 tryout camps are on hold until further notice.
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Canadian Baseball Network editor Kevin Glew’s latest “But What Do I Know?” column discusses Fergie Jenkins, Larry Walker, James Paxton, George Kottaras, Charlie Lea and Allan Roth.
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Baseball Alberta’s Board of Directors has made the difficult decision to cancel all in-person Baseball Alberta sanctioned events and activities until September 1, 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
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A statue honouring the late Tony Robichaux, longtime baseball coach at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, was unveiled at the Ragin’ Cajuns home field in February. The statue was commissioned and paid for by a group of Robichaux’s former players, led by Canadian pitcher Phil Devey (Lachute, Que.).
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