Elliott: Wrubleski goes deep as Dawgs win streak ends in Lethbridge
Elliott: Wrubleski goes deep as Dawgs win streak ends in Lethbridge

“The uniform colour black is in at the Okotoks Dawgs Academy.

There are different teams of different colors but the one all teenagers want to wear is the Vanderbilt Commodores-style black uniforms.

There is a Dawgs Red team, a Dawgs White team, but THE most desired team is Dawgs Black.

So, how to explain the Okotoks Dawgs starting catcher on Friday night against the Lethbridge Bulls at Spitz Stadium?

Jacob Wrubleski played eight years at the Dawgs Academy. Only in his final year did he wear black. He wore red normally or white the other seven years.”

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Bob Elliott, SandlotsBob Elliott
Elliott: Soccer owner Bautista connects in BP, with new uniform and cap
Elliott: Soccer owner Bautista connects in BP, with new uniform and cap

“Way back in 1999-2000, Jose Bautista was a two-way man for coach Jeff Johnson’s Chipola College Indians.

Bautista filled the gaps with line drives, showed light-tower power to left and if needed would be used as a closer in the Florida state JUCO championships ... hitting 96 MPH.

And now all these home runs later, all these teams later (eight ... but he is really only associated with one) and all these years later, he is still a two-way man.”

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Bob Elliott, Major Leagues (MLB)Bob Elliott
Verge: Asis has ambitious plans, including Filipino night at Rogers Centre
Verge: Asis has ambitious plans, including Filipino night at Rogers Centre

“The friends he surrounded himself with growing up didn’t play baseball, but Ryan Asis drew all the inspiration he needed from the Toronto Blue Jays.

Standing in front of the TV as an eight-year-old, he’d come set like the pitchers, and swing for the fences inside his childhood home.

“I fell in love with it that way,” said Asis (Mississauga, Ont.).

Back then, he was an eight-year-old with a baseball dream, fueled by the golden years of the Blue Jays winning the World Series in 1992 and 1993. If the Jays hadn’t been good, he probably would have retired as a kid in the 90’s, he said, but they were on fire, and became Asis’s motivation.

Thanks to that incredibly talented roster, including manager Cito Gaston, he now has a dream of helping grow the game for other members of his Filipino community. He’ll be taking 40 players with the Philippines Baseball Group to the Blue Jays game against the Baltimore Orioles Wednesday at Rogers Centre as the director of the Canadian chapter.”

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SandlotsMelissa Verge