Kevin Glew’s Canadian Baseball History Blog
Fifty years ago today, Dave McKay (Vancouver, B.C.) became the first - and still only - Canadian to hit a home run in their first major league at bat.
Forty-nine years ago today, Dave McKay (Vancouver, B.C.) homered in his first MLB at bat. He is the only Canadian to accomplish that feat.
It would’ve been understandable if Kevin Reimer was too exhausted to savour the fact that he had just made Canadian baseball history. After all, on August 24, 1993, when the left-handed hitting slugger became the first and only Canadian to record six hits in a major league game, he accomplished this in a grueling, extra-inning... Continue Reading →
