OTTAWA – Baseball Canada is pleased to announce the names of 38 athletes selected to attend Junior National Team Training Camp in Ajax, Ontario from August 18 – September 1. Following the camp, a select number of players will travel to Florida for a seven-game Friendship Series against the United States.
On August 4th, 1991, at Westbran Stadium in Brandon, Manitoba, 18 scrappy teenagers did something that no Canadian baseball team had done to that point and that no Canadian baseball team has managed to repeat since, they won a world baseball championship. A 5-2 win over Chinese Taipei in the gold medal game of the World Youth Baseball Championships (now known as the WBSC U-18 Baseball World Cup) sent an overflowing crowd of 5,000 fans into mass jubilation when pitcher Jason Birmingham flipped a comebacker to first baseman Troy Croft for the final out.
The incredible story that is John Axford’s career in professional baseball is set to add another chapter as the 38-year-old was acquired by the Milwaukee Brewers earlier today from the Toronto Blue Jays organization for cash considerations.
OTTAWA – For the first time in two years the Women’s National Team program will return to in-person activities with the Women’s National Team Showcase that is set for August 8 – 13 in Trois-Rivières, Québec.
OTTAWA – The World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) along with the Sarasota-Bradenton Local Organizing Committee and USA Baseball announced today the postponement of the WBSC U-18 Baseball World Cup in Bradenton and Sarasota, Florida, to 2022 due to the continued impact of the COVID-19 pandemic both domestically and internationally.
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OTTAWA - Canada’s Olympic baseball hopes ended in June after a hard-fought loss to the Dominican Republic at the WBSC Baseball Americas Olympic Qualifier.
OTTAWA – The 2021 Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft concluded today for rounds 11 through 20 with eight Canadians hearing their name called.
OTTAWA – Junior National Team alumnus Calvin Ziegler (Heidelberg, ON) leads a list of eight Canadians that were selected on day two of the Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft that saw rounds two through ten take place.
OTTAWA – Tyler Black (Stouffville, Ontario) took the honour of being the first Canadian selected in the 2021 Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft when the Milwaukee Brewers selected the second baseman in the Competitive Balance Round A, 33rd overall out of Wright State University.
OTTAWA - The Pittsburgh Pirates hold the first overall selection in the 2021 Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft that runs from July 11th - July 13th with 20 rounds scheduled for the three-day event.
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