It’s hard to believe that just one year ago, Cohen Achen was putting the wraps on an exceptional collegiate career at Lindsey Wilson College and was getting ready to play summer baseball with the Intercounty Baseball League’s London Majors.
The Calgary native was instead drafted by the Baltimore Orioles and is now in cruise control moving up the team’s depth charts.
Read More Calling for CohenWe look at 10 times that Major League Baseball (MLB) teams played in Alberta …
Read More Putting on The ShowBaseball fans will get a glimpse into the future of Major League Baseball this week with the second annual Spring Breakout.
The prospect showcase is a four-day event with the best prospects from each team taking part, including five who are either from Alberta or playing in the WCBL.
Read More Five Reasons to Watch MLB Spring BreakoutYou have to think that baseball people in Calgary look at Okotoks and wonder “what if?”
What if the city had backed the Dawgs instead of forcing them out?
With Foothills Stadium being torn down, it leaves a giant void in the city’s baseball landscape.
Read More OPINION: The Nightmare in CalgaryThe demolition of Foothills Stadium has hit the baseball community like a wrecking ball.
Despite the inevitable end of the facility, which played home to Calgary’s highest levels of baseball for more than half a century, seeing the structure reduced to rubble has left many sports fans heartbroken, angry and despondent.
Read More Bidding Farewell to Foothills StadiumThey were the mainstays on prairie baseball fields for years.
Their names are virtually synonymous with the maple leaf, helping show future generations that they, too, could have professional dreams.
They would go onto play the game at the highest level, then come back home to show the way by becoming coaches themselves, giving back to the game they know and love.
Read More OPINION: 5 Names for Canadian Hall ConsiderationThey were a colourful bunch, those 1991 Calgary Cannons.
Sporting jerseys with white, blue, red and yellow colours, the Cannons looked sharp that season.
This 27-card team set from ProCards added even more colour to the squad …
Read More In The Cards: ’91 Calgary CannonsA promotion to the big leagues is so close, Adam Macko can almost touch it.
And if everything goes according to plan, the young left-hander would like to do it sometime in 2025.
The highly touted Toronto Blue Jays prospect is coming off a year which saw him play at three different levels, with his final start coming with the Triple-A Buffalo Bisons.
Read More Engaged in the ProcessUnlike a ball diamond’s basepaths, a journey in professional baseball is never a straight line.
No one knows that more than Matt Lloyd, who has endured more than his fair share of detours over the past few years as he looks to fulfill the dream of making it to the big leagues.
The Dawgs Academy alum is coming off a solid first season in the St. Louis Cardinals organization.
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