After 11 big league seasons highlighted by a trip to the 2007 World Series, Jeff Francis is retiring as a professional baseball player.
OTTAWA- A tremendous list of current and former Major League Baseball stars is shaping up for the 14th annual Baseball Canada National Teams Awards Banquet set to take place Saturday, January 9th at the Northern Lights Ballroom inside the Renaissance Toronto Downtown.
Major League Baseball International will take the MLB Roadshow to Canada for the second consecutive year with the event traveling to three provinces across the country. The MLB Roadshow debuted in Canada last year and has visited 13 countries on four continents including Australia, China, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Japan, Mexico, the Netherlands, Portugal, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.
OTTAWA- Andrew Yerzy’s summer just got busier.
OTTAWA- Two former National Team players, a legendary Canadian baseball scribe, along with two individuals who spent significant parts of their careers in Canada will all be honoured tomorrow in St. Marys, Ontario as the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame inducts its 2015 class.
OTTAWA- Twenty Canadians were selected during day three of the 2015 Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft bringing the total number to 30 for the annual three-day event.
Naylor, Soroka, Degano taken on day one of MLB Draft
OTTAWA- Not one, not two, but three Canadians were taken on day one of the Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft including two members of the Junior National Team program who went in the first round.