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Legendary Toronto Blue Jays general manager Pat Gillick turns 86 today.
Happy 86th Birthday to Pat Gillick!
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Bratt, Cienfuegos, Julien, Pelletier named 2022 CBN award winners
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Toronto Mets and Junior National Team alum Mitch Bratt (Newmarket, Ont.) earned CBN’s Wayne Norton Award, as top pitcher in the affiliated minor league ranks. Photo: Down East Wood Ducks. December 19, 2022 Official Canadian Baseball Network News Release The Canadian Baseball Network (CBN) announced the winners of its 2022 awards for top Canadian minor... Continue Reading →
Canadian Baseball Network unveils 2022 Canadian college Player of the Year and annual All-Canadian college teams
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November 22, 2022 Official Canadian Baseball Network News Release Toronto, Ont. – The Canadian Baseball Network (CBN) announced its 2022 Canadian college Player of the Year and its 23rd annual All-Canadian college teams on Tuesday. Matt Coutney (Wetaskiwin, Alta.), who batted .376 with 27 home runs in 58 games for the Old Dominion Monarchs, has... Continue Reading →
John Gibbons: “I tip my hat to Canada”
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsWILi6aFcg&t=113s Former Toronto Blue Jays manager John Gibbons has teamed with Canadian actor, producer and musician Stu Stone for a weekly series called Talking Points, sponsored by Bodog Canada. Watch the latest episode by clicking on the YouTube link above. July 1, 2022 By Kevin Glew Cooperstowners in Canada John Gibbons managed the Toronto Blue... Continue Reading →
Dorchester, Ont., native David Mendham named Canadian Baseball Network’s college Player of the Year
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David Mendham (Dorchester, Ont.) has been the named the winner of the Canadian Baseball Network's college Player of the Year Award. Note from Kevin Glew, blog founder: I grew up in Dorchester, Ont. So this special to me. Congratulations to David and the Mendham family! Official Canadian Baseball Network Press Release Canadian Baseball Network unveils... Continue Reading →
But What Do I Know? . . . Fergie Jenkins, Gary Carter, Nick Pivetta, Orv Franchuk
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By Kevin Glew Cooperstowners in Canada My weekly observations and notes about some Canadian baseball stories: - Self-described Baseball Reference Play Index adherent Austin J. Eich shares a seemingly endless stream of fascinating baseball stats on Twitter, including this one (below) about Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame inductee Fergie Jenkins (Chatham, Ont.). Eich notes that... Continue Reading →
Find the Canadian Connection – 1976 Topps Bill Stein
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This is the sixth of my “Find the Canadian Connection” features. For this feature, I close my eyes and reach into a random box of baseball cards in my basement and pull out a single card. I then try to establish a Canadian connection for the player featured on the card. You can read... Continue Reading →
But What Do I Know? . . . Fergie Jenkins, Ryan Dempster, Jim Fanning, Carlos Delgado
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By Kevin Glew Cooperstowners in Canada My weekly observations and notes about some Canadian baseball stories: It was 40 years ago today that Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame inductee Fergie Jenkins (Chatham, Ont.) won his 100th game as an American League pitcher, when he hurled a complete game for the Texas Rangers in their... Continue Reading →
But What Do I Know? . . . Tony Fernandez, Larry Walker, Nick Pivetta, Russell Martin
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My weekly observations and notes about some Canadian baseball stories: - Please send your thoughts and prayers to Toronto Blue Jays legend and 2008 Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame inductee Tony Fernandez who is in critical condition in hospital due to complications from a kidney disease. Fernandez has been fighting Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) for... Continue Reading →
But What Do I Know? . . . Larry Walker, Russell Martin, Mike Soroka, Dave Van Horne
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My weekly observations and notes about some Canadian baseball stories: · When is the last time you heard someone discuss the “Fenway Park effect” when evaluating a player’s Hall of Fame candidacy? I don’t think I’ve ever heard of it. And while people continually bring up Coors Field when debating whether Canadian Larry Walker (Maple... Continue Reading →