“The Sarnia Brigade came within a game of winning the Canadian Amateur Baseball Central Gold Bat Tournament in 2024, but fell short in the final to the eventual provincial champion Newmarket Hawks.
This year, a different year, the host club would not be denied as they won the Gold Bat title with a 5-2 win over the Windsor Stars in the tournament finale at Stan Slack Field at Errol Russell Park on Sunday afternoon. “
Read MoreBob Elliott pays tribute to former big league reliever, longtime Toronto Blue Jays doctor and his friend Ron Taylor.
Read MoreOkotoks Dawgs catcher Chase Logan (Oyen, Alta.) got to celebrate his big brother Gavin’s promotion to the Arizona Diamondbacks’ triple-A Reno Aces in the Dawgs’ coaches room at Seaman Stadium after Wednesday’s game. Bob Elliott was there to document the scene.
Read MoreThe Winnipeg Goldeyes, in partnership with Perimeter Aviation and Manitoba Blue Cross, will host National Indigenous Peoples Day on Saturday, June 21 at Blue Cross Park.
Read MoreAfter an outstanding rookie season in 2024, right-hander Cade Smith (Abbotsford, B.C.) has been superb again out of the bullpen for the Cleveland Guardians in 2025, writes the Canadian Baseball Network’s Tyson Shushkewich.
Read More“The joint was jumping.
Speakers at Seaman Stadium were blasting “Heave Away” by The Fables, the Celtic rock band from St. John’s, Newfoundland, as reliever Chase Tucker took his warm-up tosses.
The Fort McMurray Giants had a man on third as Tucker (Mount Pearl, Nfld.), replaced Josh Mills and made his first pitch.
Tucker heaved it all the way to the backstop with the runner scoring easily from third.
Lord liftin’ as a Newfoundlander might say.”
Read More“Just like the ice and snow blanketed the ocean in the distance, Donnie Smith was also covered in multiple layers.
(Two pairs of long underwear, baseball pants, sweat pants, long sleeve shirts, pullovers, and a hoodie, to be exact.)
But just south of the Arctic Circle in Rankin Inlet, Nunavut, it was still time for baseball.
Smith, a former Winnipeg Goldeyes pitching star (the second ever to have his number retired), boarded a Calm Air flight earlier that day, alongside Baseball Manitoba clinicians, Winnipeg Goldeyes general manager Andrew Collier, and a plane half full of goods to be delivered to the remote Canadian hamlet.”
Read More“This really is Wild Rose country.
It says so on every license plate in the province.
And it has said so for years at Seaman Stadium, home of the Okotoks Dawgs.
Aidan Rose plays second base for the Okotoks Dawgs in the Western Canadian Baseball League. And before that Rose (Calgary, Alta.) joined the Dawgs Academy at age 12 from the Rocky Mountain Little League. So, this season with the college team represents his 11th in a Dawgs uniform.”
Read MoreThe death of former big league centre fielder Chet Lemon hit Canadian Baseball Network editor Kevin Glew particularly hard.
Read MoreThe Intercounty Baseball League announced their Player and Pitcher of the Week honours on Tuesday.
Read MoreThe Ottawa Titans dropped the opener of their three-game series by a 7-6 final in extras to the Sussex County Miners on Tuesday.
Read More“The Boston sports fan in your life needs to know something.
Rafael Devers is not Mookie Betts, and the trade that sent Devers to San Francisco on Sunday is not the Titanic-caliber trade that sent Betts to the Dodgers.
Yes, the fear and loathing are real and understandable. Brad Marchand, supposedly a Bruin for life, got away to Florida and is not only on the bus that is tracking down a second straight Stanley Cup, but driving it. Aaron Nesmith, a drop-in for the Celtics whenever their key players needed a breather, is a priority scorer and defender for the Indiana Pacers as they battle Oklahoma City in the NBA Final”
Read MoreToronto Mets and Junior National Team alum Denzel Clarke (Pickering, Ont.) has won the MLB’s Electric Play of the Week for the third consecutive week. He is the first player to win the award in three consecutive weeks.
Read MoreThe Intercounty Baseball League’s Chatham-Kent Barnstormers will honour longtime major league executive Doug Melvin prior to their game tonight against the London Majors.
Read More“Time sure flies when you’re having fun.
Elemer Jerkovits has found a home behind the plate and all around the diamond as an umpire in Saskatchewan for 50 years.
As he suited up to be a field umpire in the Regina Red Sox home opener against the Swift Current 57’s on May 29, the Regina native was overcome with the feeling of gratitude.”
Read MoreRon Taylor, a two-time World Series-winning pitcher from Toronto who later became the Blue Jays doctor, died on Monday at the age of 87 after a lengthy illness.
Read MoreSeven players with Canadian connections are among the 322 invited to the MLB draft combine June 17-21 at Chase Field in Phoenix, Ariz.
Read MoreFieldhouse Pirates and Junior National Team alum Owen Caissie (Burlington, Ont.) has been named Canadian Baseball Network minor league Player of the Week after he topped all Canuck minor leaguers in home runs (3) and OPS (1.267) last week for the Chicago Cubs’ triple-A Iowa Cubs.
Read MoreRegina-based Queen City Sports & Entertainment Group has signed a deal to acquire 100% of the Western Canadian Baseball League’s Regina Red Sox.
Read MoreThe Okotoks Dawgs cruised to an 8-3 win over the Energy City Cactus Rats on Sunday.
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