Thanks to his record-breaking 16-strikeout performance for the UBC Thunderbirds, right-hander Sean Heppner (Tsawwassen, BC by way of Point Roberts, Wash.) has been named Canadian Baseball Network College Player of the Week.
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The Toronto Blue Jays played their first spring training game 47 years ago today. Canadian Baseball Network editor Kevin Glew shares the details of that historic contest.
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“Hailing from Abbotsford, B.C., Carlin and Cardel Dick are two of just over a 1,000 Canadian-born players who have decided to head to the United States to continue playing baseball at the post-secondary level.
The brothers make up 1.1% of those Canucks who are suiting up for a D1 program and represent 15% of those players suiting up in the United States who call Abbotsford home.
While the brothers are playing for different programs this season, their journey to postsecondary opportunities ran through the Vauxhall Academy of Baseball in Vauxhall, Alta.”
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The Mississauga Tigers, Etobicoke Rangers and Langley Blaze will soon embark on their annual spring trips to the south.
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Canadian Baseball Network editor Kevin Glew’s weekly “But What Do I Know?” column discusses Joey Votto, Nick Pivetta, Owen Caissie and Edouard Julien.
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The London Majors have signed infielder Tyler Mosher (Dutton, Ont.).
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The Intercounty Baseball League’s London Majors have signed infielder Gibson Krzeminski (Tecumseh, Ont.).
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University of South Florida right-hander Matt Brown (Oakville, Ont.) has been named Terriers’ College Player of the Week.
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With Joey Votto (Etobicoke, Ont.) signing a minor league contract with his hometown Toronto Blue Jays, we thought we’d resurrect this story Scott Langdon wrote about Votto and the slugger’s Toronto baseball roots from December 15, 2020.
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Joey Votto has signed a non-roster deal with his hometown Toronto Blue Jays.
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“She filled up two passport pages in 2023, and if Zoe Hicks has anything to say about it, she wouldn’t mind doing it all again in 2024.
Representing both Softball Canada and Baseball Canada during the year, she often found herself flying from one event to the next with little rest in between.
Hicks wouldn’t have it any other way though, as her passion and energy around the diamond is evident when we sit down for a Zoom chat in December.
She had just received the news that she was named the Baseball Canada Women’s National Team Most Valuable Player in just her second season with the team.”
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Canadian Baseball Network editor Kevin Glew pays tribute to the trailblazing and inspirational Ashley Stephenson on International Women’s Day.
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“Baseball’s offseason always feels far too long for Amy Johnson, but it’s felt even longer heading into the 2024 season.
The Saskatoon product has been champing at the bit to get back onto the field and get ready for the possibility of representing Canada at the Women’s Baseball World Cup in Thunder Bay, Ontario.
Even though the 21-year-old has been on Baseball Canada’s Women’s National Team roster for the last two seasons, Johnson isn’t assuming anything yet.
“Playing in the World Cup would be a dream come true,” she told Saskatchewan Dugout Stories. “It’s the highest level in the sport I love and it would be such a great opportunity that I would remember forever.”
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Canadian Baseball Network writer Melissa Verge remembers All-American Girls Professional Baseball League superstar pitcher Helen Nicol Fox (Ardley, Alta.).
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Canadian Baseball Network editor Kevin Glew shares his review of Danny Gallagher’s excellent new Montreal Expos book, “Explosion: Genesis to relocation, 1994 saga, contraction, revelations about the dying days, Moises, Lenny, Schneids and the Expos.”
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Canadian Baseball Network editor Bob Elliott recalls one particularly memorable story he wrote about Josh Donaldson in 2016. It was the result of a not-so-deep probing question he asked the slugger: “I have a name for you, a blast from the past ….Tyler Johnstone.”
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Philadelphia Phillies’ legendary executive Larry (Baron) Shenk remembers his first spring at Jack Russell Stadium in Clearwater, Fla., in 1964.
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The home games that the Intercounty Baseball League’s Kitchener Rangers will play on Thursday nights this summer will be broadcast on local radio station, 98.5 CKWR FM.
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Canadian Baseball Network editor Kevin Glew has attempted to document all of the updates and transactions involving Canadians in the professional ranks this off-season.
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Canadian Baseball Network writer Matt Betts summarizes the top performances by Canadians in the U.S. college ranks from the past week in his latest “Big Man on Campus (BMOC)” column.
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