“The journey to Division 1 Baseball is a road that only a select group of Canadian players find themselves on.
Hundreds if not thousands of high school players compete across Canada each year, but just 213 Canucks are playing D1 baseball in 2025.
Caleb Clark (Orillia, Ont.) is one of the 213, and the road to get to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln was full of twists and turns.”
Read More“Perhaps you’ve been preoccupied with the ghosting of Shedeur Sanders or the octagon that’s become the Montreal Canadiens’ bench area. Understandable, but Eugenio Suarez did something Saturday night that shouldn’t have been swept underneath our brains, but was.
He became only the 19th hitter in the history of Major League Baseball to hit four home runs in the same game.”
Read MoreCanadian Baseball Network editor Kevin Glew summarizes the transactions involving Canadians in the pro baseball ranks from April 4 to April 30.
Read MoreTwo of former Montreal Expos infielder Mark Grudzielanek’s sons are eligible for the 2025 MLB draft.
Read MoreThe Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame will open its doors for the season on Thursday.
Read MoreCanadian Baseball Network writer Tyson Shushkewich provides a recap of the Junior National Team’s Extended Spring Training Camp that took place in Florida last week.
Read MoreThe Toronto Blue Jays have claimed veteran right-hander Casey Lawrence off waivers from the Seattle Mariners.
Read MoreOkotoks Dawgs Academy alum Matt Lloyd (Okotoks, Alta.) has been named Canadian Baseball Network minor league Player of the Week after going 8-for-17 in five games for the St. Louis Cardinals’ triple-A Memphis Redbirds.
Read MoreCanadian 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)” article.
Read MoreOkotoks Dawgs Academy alum Ayden Makarus (Okotoks, Alta.) belted four home runs last week for Bellevue University. For his efforts, he has been named Canadian Baseball Network college Player of the Week.
Read MoreWith their 9-2 win over Lewis-Clark State on Sunday, UBC are CCC regular season champions for the first time since 2010.
Read MoreCanadians Tate Carey (Windsor, Ont.) and Keegan O'Hearn (Oshawa, Ont.) help lead the Michigan Wolverines to a 6-5 win over Michigan State on Sunday.
Read MoreThe Abbotsford Cardinals have retired the No. 47 in honour of their longtime director of player development Corey Eckstein, who is now the president of the Ontario Blue Jays.
Read MoreUBC catcher Russell Young (Surrey, B.C.) homered twice in his team’s 15-7 loss to Lewis-Clark State on Saturday.
Read MoreCanadian Baseball Network editor Kevin Glew’s weekly “But What Do I Know?” column discusses Nick Pivetta, Cade Smith, Michael Soroka, Ernie Whitt, Nolan Ryan, Jacob Robson and Willie Upshaw.
Read MoreCanadian Baseball Network writer Patrick Kennedy recently spoke with Seattle Mariners reliever Matt Brash (Kingston, Ont.), who is close to his return from the Tommy John Surgery he underwent last May.
Read MoreIan Wilson, of Alberta Dugout Stories, provides a 2025 preview of the reigning Western Canadian Baseball League champions, the Okotoks Dawgs.
Read MoreUBC split a doubleheader with Lewis-Clark State on Friday.
Read MoreElliott: Perfect Game hosts 12 teams from four provinces in national tournament
Read More“Roughly an hour and a half north of Toronto, Orillia is home to many things, including the Ontario Provincial Police headquarters, former Ontario Premier Leslie Frost, and singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot, who passed in 2023.
The city is central to a few surrounding communities, such as Oro-Medonte, Severn, Rama, and Washago. Teens come into the city to go to school, participate in sports, or other activities that the smaller communities don’t host.
Known as the “Sunshine City,” Orillia, with its population of a little over 33,000, lives up to this name during the summer months when the local ball diamonds are full from the afternoon until the lights get shut off near midnight. “
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