The Baseball Canada Volunteer of the Year Award was created in 2001 to recognize the contribution of the most dedicated, enthusiastic person who has devoted at least ten years of volunteering within their provincial association.
OTTAWA – London, Ontario’s Jamie Romak is the winner of the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame’s 2020 Tip O’Neill Award, handed out annually to the Canadian player judged to have excelled in individual achievement and team contribution while adhering to baseball’s highest ideals.
OTTAWA – Three-time National Team member Brock Dykxhoorn was given the “Outstanding Player Award” after leading the Uni-President 7-ELEVEn Lions to a seven-game series win over the CTBC Brothers in the Taiwan Series, the top prize Chinese Professional Baseball (CPBL).
OTTAWA – Canadian Tyler O’Neill has won his first Rawlings Gold Glove Award after the 25-year-old outfielder posted a fine defensive season for the St. Louis Cardinals.
OTTAWA – Baseball Canada is pleased to announce that hosting rights for the 2021 22U Men’s National Championships have been awarded to a joint bid from Dartmouth and Halifax, Nova Scotia.
OTTAWA – The 2021 Baseball Canada Cup will be staged in Regina, Saskatchewan while the 2021 21U Women’s Invitational will take place in St. John’s, Newfoundland following recent approval from Baseball Canada’s Board of Directors.
OTTAWA – Fall instructional league camps are underway for 28 of Major League Baseball’s 30 clubs including several Canadian players looking to get valuable reps in after the 2020 minor league season was cancelled earlier this year due to Covid-19.
OTTAWA – Covid-19 continues to have an impact on the international baseball calendar as the World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) announced today that the 2020 Women’s Baseball World Cup has been postponed for the second time and is now scheduled for March 1-9, 2021 in Tijuana, Mexico.
OTTAWA – Baseball Canada is pleased to announce that we’re are taking our annual Fall Meetings online in 2020 with the goal of benefitting the entire Canadian baseball community!
Regina’s Stu Scheurwater, the only full time Canadian-umpire in Major League Baseball, will be working the National League Division Series between the Miami Marlins and Atlanta Braves beginning today in Houston.