OTTAWA- Wayne Parro (Brooklin, ON) is moving on to a different role within Baseball Canada. Parro will chair the newly formed Baseball Canada Coaching Committee. This will be a new role for Parro within Baseball Canada as he just ended a seven year run as an assistant coach with the Women’s National Team. The current Executive Director of Coaches of Canada feels comfortable knowing that the program is headed in the right direction.
OTTAWA- Baseball Ontario will be hosting the 24th Annual Best Ever Coaches Clinic January 21-23 at the Sheraton Airport Hotel in Toronto. Any and all coaches are invited to register for the opportunity to take part in this fantastic weekend.
OTTAWA- How would you like to meet newly crowned National League MVP Joey Votto? You can have this once in a lifetime opportunity as Votto will be in attendance at the National Teams Awards Banquet and Fundraiser on January 15th, 2011 at the Renaissance Toronto Hotel at Rogers Centre in Toronto.
OTTAWA-Cincinnati Reds first baseman Joey Votto (Etobicoke, ON) has been named the 2010 National League MVP as voted by the Baseball Writers Association of America. Votto joins Larry Walker (Maple Ridge, BC), who won the National League MVP in 1997 and Justin Morneau (New Westminster, BC), winner of the 2006 American League MVP as the only Canadians to win the prestigious award.
OTTAWA- Nick Weglarz (Stevensville, ON) was named the fifth best prospect in the Cleveland Indians organization by Baseball America. Baseball America annually ranks the top ten prospects of each major league team.
OTTAWA- Shawn Bowman (Port Moody, BC) had an exceptional week at the plate as a member of the Chinandega Tigers of the Nicaraguan Professional Baseball League (NPBL). Bowman’s hot bat earned him the offensive player of the week for the period of November 9th to 14th.
RICHMOND, BC- Baseball Canada recognized its best at their annual awards banquet. The banquet was in conjunction with the four-day long Baseball Canada Fall Convention.
RICHMOND, BC- In February 2010 all of Canada was consumed by the Olympics as the city of Vancouver welcomed some of the finest athletes in the world. The Olympics also provided Vancouver and surrounding areas with some of the finest athletic facilities in the world that will leave a lasting legacy to the sporting community.
