Great Lake Canadians and Sarnia Braves alum Noah Myers (Wyoming, Ont.) has been named the Canadian Baseball Network minor league Player of the Week after he belted his first two home runs at the double-A level for the Tampa Bay Rays’ Montgomery Biscuits.
Read MoreBo Naylor (Mississauga, Ont.) has been named the Cleveland Guardians’ Roberto Clemente Award nominee.
Read MoreOn Roberto Clemente Day, Canadian Baseball Network editor Kevin Glew takes a look back at Roberto Clemente’s first professional season with the Montreal Royals.
Read MoreChicago Cubs outfielder Owen Caissie (Burlington, Ont.) has entered into Major League Baseball’s concussion protocol after he hit his head on the Wrigley Field wall while making an outstanding catch on a fly ball in the third inning in the Cubs’ 5-4 loss to the Tampa Bay Rays on Saturday.
Read MoreThe Welland Jackfish have won the Intercounty Baseball League championship.
Read MoreThe rosters for the 2025 Canadian Futures Showcase have been announced.
Read MoreThe Welland Jackfish defeated the Barrie Baycats 5-1 on Saturday night. The Jackfish are now just one win from winning the Intercounty Baseball League championship.
Read MoreThe international baseball community is mourning the loss of longtime Baseball Canada executive director Jim Baba.
Read MoreCanadian Baseball Network editor Kevin Glew’s weekly “But What Do I Know?” column discusses Jim Baba, Josh Naylor, Matt Brash, Nick Pivetta, Tyler O’Neill and Kirk McCaskill.
Read MoreFour Terriers players are headed to the Canadian Futures Showcase that will take place at Rogers Centre this coming week.
Read MoreBaseball Canada is deeply saddened to announce the passing of Jim Baba, longtime executive director and one of the most respected and influential leaders in Canadian baseball history.
Read More“It’s admittedly going to sting for a while.
However, Team Alberta has nothing to hang their heads for after returning home with a silver medal in the first-ever women’s baseball event at the Canada Summer Games in St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador.”
Read MoreFor the first time in its 11-year history, the Canadian Futures Showcase will be held without T.J. Burton at its director. Geoff Seto has replaced Burton, who has moved on to be the president of the Ottawa-Nepean Canadians.
Read MoreBrendan Luther’s one-out single in the bottom of the eighth scored Robert Mullen for the go-ahead run in the Welland Jackfish’s 3-2 victory over the Barrie Baycats on Thursday night. The win gives the Jackfish a 2-1 lead in the best-of-seven Intercounty Baseball League finals.
Read MoreTristan Peters (Winkler, Man.) and Emilien Pitre (Repentigny, Que.) have been named MVPs of the Tampa Rays’ triple-A Durham Bulls and High-A Bowling Green Hot Rods respectively.
Read MoreThey have been pioneers and trailblazers for baseball in communities across the province.
The Saskatchewan Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum celebrated its 40th induction ceremony with the Class of 2025 in mid-August.
Read MoreThe Ontario Baseball Association has announced its 2025 Hall of Fame inductees.
Read MoreWell before right-handed pitchers Micah Bucknam (Abbotsford, B.C.) and Cam Leiter (Maple Ridge, B.C.) became two of the top Canadians selected in the 2025 Major League Baseball draft, they could be found squaring off on the sandlots of British Columbia.
Read MoreA new documentary called “Who Killed the Montreal Expos?” will be released on Netflix on October 21.
Read MoreIt wouldn’t be much of a stretch to say that Don Drysdale’s career in professional baseball started and ended in Montreal.
As a fiery, fresh-faced teen, he pitched his first full pro season with the triple-A Montreal Royals in 1955.
And sadly, 38 years later, he suffered a fatal heart attack in a Montreal hotel room while he was part of the Los Angeles Dodgers’ broadcast team.
Both Drysdale’s season with the Royals and the night of his death are detailed thoroughly in Mark Whicker’s excellent new book, Don Drysdale: Up and In: The Life of a Dodgers Legend.
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