R.I.P. Gary Collins

Like many hockey players growing up in Canada, Gary Collins could also carry his weight in baseball. Collins was a mean throwing left-handed pitcher in his Toronto youth and he won two consecutive Memorial Cup national junior hockey titles with the Toronto Marlboros in 1955 and 1956 and played in two NHL games -- both in the spring of 1959 -- with the Maple Leafs. Collins passed away on June 12 at age 86. Canadian Baseball Network writer Danny Gallagher remembers Collins with this article.

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Davisson recalls being a part of Canada’s first junior national squad

It could be called Canada’s first junior national team, and Bob Davisson, then a naïve, 16-year-old left-hander from Oakbank, Man., was part of it.

Canadian Baseball Network editor Kevin Glew recently spoke with Davisson about that trailblazing squad of 14 teenagers, selected from four provinces, that travelled to Cuba in September 1964 to compete in the World Junior Amateur Baseball Championships.

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From Coyote to Dawg, Luther brings winning ways to Okotoks

After winning a Canadian College Baseball Conference championship with the Okanagan College Coyotes this spring, shortstop Brendan Luther (Mississauga, Ont.). has brought his winning ways and potent bat to the Western Canadian Baseball League’s Okotoks Dawgs this summer. Joe McFarland, of Alberta Dugout Stories, recently caught up with the young Mississauga, Ont., native.

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