They weren’t very good.
And neither were the baseball cards they graced.
But there were some bright spots on the roster, nonetheless.
Let’s meet the 1996 Medicine Hat Blue Jays…
Read More In The Cards: ’96 Medicine Hat Blue JaysBaseball fans will be excused if they feel like trading in their cowhide for some pigskin this Super Bowl weekend.
With that in mind, here’s a look at three pieces of trivia involving times when Alberta baseball had links to the Super Bowl …
Read More From the Diamond to the GridironThe Montreal Expos broke new ground for Canadian baseball.
The club was the first Major League Baseball (MLB) team in the country, and when they established a minor-league outpost in Lethbridge, it was the first affiliated, professional squad to play in Alberta.
Read More Lethbridge Expos: All-Time TeamWhen Reno Lizzi first brought professional baseball to Lethbridge, little did he know he was on a collision course with the team he grew up idolizing.
Over the course of the next four years, the Lethbridge Dodgers would claim three Pioneer League championships under manager Gail Henley.
Read More Dodger DynastyThe Toronto Blue Jays and Los Angeles Dodgers bring championship pedigrees to their 2025 battle for a World Series title.
The Jays won Major League Baseball’s top prize in 1992 and 1993, while the Dodgers have eight championships, including one from their time in Brooklyn.
There was a time – in the 1980s and 1990s – when Pioneer Baseball League squads from Medicine Hat and Lethbridge contributed to the ultimate success of their parent clubs in Ontario and California.
Read More Hatching Jays and Building A Bridge to L.A.It’s a question that has sat in the back of the minds of baseball fans for more than 20 years.
Who killed the Montreal Expos?
As Netflix gets ready to release its new documentary, we look at the Alberta farm teams of the ill-fated Expos.
Read More Expos, Eh?Baseball players, coaches, builders and dreamers are taking their place among the sporting legends of Alberta.
Five major baseball figures in the province – Orv Franchuk, Dr. Randy Gregg, W.P. Kinsella, Mel Kowalchuk and Reno Lizzi – are part of a major induction ceremony that will take place at the Alberta Sports Hall of Fame …
Read More Baseball Call to the HallWe assemble an All-Time Team for the Lethbridge Mounties, who played in the Pioneer League for four years in the 1990s.
Find out who the best players for that franchise were at each position and check out our batting lineup and starting rotation …
Read More Lethbridge Mounties: All-Time TeamWe look at 10 times that Major League Baseball (MLB) teams played in Alberta …
Read More Putting on The ShowYou 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 Calgary