Canadian Baseball Network writer J.P. Antonacci recently caught up with Trevor Oakes, owner of Tillsonburg, Ont., bat company, ABO Baseball, whose bats were used in major league action for the first time this year.
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Elliott: R. I. P. Heather Pullen
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“While it's not a worst-to-first type of scenario, it's pretty incredible that the Toronto Blue Jays are looking at a return to the playoffs for the first time since 2016, thanks to a number of unusual factors in the 2020 season.”
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Swift Current 57’s head coach/general manager Joe Carnahan has stepped down from his duo roles with the Western Canadian Baseball League club.
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Victoria Eagles and Junior National Team alum Nick Pivetta (Victoria, B.C.) will start for the Boston Red Sox against the Baltimore Orioles tonight at Fenway Park.
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To continue our tribute to legendary Montreal Expos scout Gary Hughes who passed away on Saturday at the age of 79 after battling liver cancer, we have decided to re-publish this article written by Danny Gallagher that initially ran on November 14, 2015.
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Ahead of a key three-game series against the New York Yankees in Buffalo, the Toronto Blue Jays have activated RHP Matt Shoemaker off the 10-day injured list while subsequently placing RHP Julian Merryweather on the 10-day IL with elbow tendinitis.
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“For decades, Jack Vooght spread fear among enemy batters throughout Ontario. Whether it was the Intercounty Senior Baseball League, the South Renfrew Senior Baseball League, the North Renfrew Senior Baseball League or Ottawa’s Interprovincial loop, the southpaw won many battles to become one of the greatest pitchers southern Ontario and Renfrew County has ever known. For the last few years, though, Vooght has been waging his biggest battle. It's a battle he's not winning: Alzheimer's has taken a massive hold of him. He has some good days, some not so good.”
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The Chicago Cubs have placed RHP Rowan Wick (North Vancouver, B.C.) on the 10-day injured list (retroactive to September 17) with a left oblique strain.
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Canadian Baseball Network editor-in-chief Bob Elliott pays tribute to beloved former Montreal Expos scout and executive Gary Hughes who passed away on Saturday at the age of 79.
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Canadian Baseball Network editor Kevin Glew’s weekly “But What Do I Know?” column discusses Joey Votto, Tyler O’Neill, James Paxton, Jason Bay, Roy Halladay, Paul Hodgson, Jordan Romano, Willie Upshaw and John Gibbons.
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Elliott: R. I. P. Don Welke, former Jays scout who played a large role in Dave Stieb, Pat Hentgen and John Olerud coming to Toronto.
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The Canada Games Council and the 2021 Canada Games Host Society have made the decision to postpone the 2021 Niagara Canada Summer Games to 2022 due to continued public health concerns relating to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. Baseball Canada is fully supportive of this difficult decision and understands the impact this decision has on other events, athletes, coaches and provincial programs.
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The Toronto Blue Jays have called up right-hander T.J. Zeuch and activated Wilmer Font as part of a series of roster moves on Thursday.
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Chicago Dogs outfielder Michael Crouse (New Westminster, B.C.) has been named the American Association’s co-defensive player of the year, along with Brett Vertigan of the Milwaukee Milkman.
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The Brantford Red Sox Alumni Association have announced that they will hold a Home Run for Hospice Game on Saturday, October 3 at Arnold Anderson Stadium. The game will feature Brantford Red Sox alumni from multiple generations and all funds generated from ticket sales will go to directly support the Stedman Community Hospice.
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New York Yankees veteran backup catcher Erik Kratz has become a second father to some of the younger members of his club’s pitching staff. He is also batting .321 (9-for-28) for the Bronx Bombers this season. Here’s a feature article that Canadian Baseball Network editor-in-chief Bob Elliott wrote about Kratz that was initially published on October 11, 2018.
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“Even though it is a shortened season, some COBA Major Baseball League history was still made on Sunday night in Oakville. Former Anaheim Angels farmhand and Erindale Cardinals slugger Geoff Cullen clubbed his 200th career home run in the COBA Major Baseball League.”
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Looking to rebound from a game in which their pitching staff allowed the fourth-highest total of runs (20) in franchise history, the Toronto Blue Jays made a series of roster moves on Wednesday.
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Former Montreal Expos outfielder Tim Raines and his family had theirr orientataion visit to the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown.
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