Langdon: A half century of Sunday mornings in Etobicoke

Tom McInnis, David Lee and some friends from elementary and high school decided to play a little pick-up baseball one Sunday morning in 1972. Fifty consecutive years later, with no organized league, no uniforms nor umpires, their games have become a little-known baseball institution in the west Toronto suburb of Etobicoke. Canadian Baseball Network writer Scott Langdon has the story.

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Canadian Baseball Hall of Famer Thomson set to manage Phillies in World Series

Rob Thomson (Corunna, Ont.) will become the first Canadian to manage a team in the World Series in 135 years when he leads his Philadelphia Phillies against the Houston Astros in Game 1 of the Fall Classic on Friday. The Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame has more on Thomson and also highlights the top World Series performances by Canadians over the years.

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Penner living his dream in Phillies’ organization

“If you would have told Ty Penner in high school or even early in his college baseball career that he would one day sign a contract with a Major League Baseball team, he would have wanted to believe you.

But he admits, he doesn’t know if every bone in his body would have thought it was possible.

Just a few short years later, a life-long dream for the Lethbridge infielder became a reality when he signed a free agent contract with the Philadelphia Phillies.”

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