Five Key WCBL Playoff Moments

It was a chaotic postseason in the Western Canadian Baseball League, with the slimmest of margins between the winners and the losers.

Every wild pitch seemed like a run waiting to happen and each fielding error felt like it might prove fatal to a team’s playoff chances.

Here’s a look at five pivotal moments that defined the 2025 WCBL postseason …

WCBL All-Star Players Named

The stars are ready to shine brightly for the Western Canadian Baseball League.

The WCBL has announced its player selections for the East Division and West Division rosters that will take the field at the 2025 All-Star Game and Home Run Derby, presented by FortisAlberta. The signature event takes place on Saturday, July 19th at Seaman Stadium in Okotoks.

Here is a closer look at the players who have been chosen to represent their teams.

Memorable Moments from WCBL All-Star Games

There’s nothing quite like the Western Canadian Baseball League’s midsummer classic.

From the top-notch talent, to the derby dingers, to the post-game fireworks, the WCBL All-Star Game & Home Run Derby is a dream day for baseball fans.

The 2025 event, presented by FortisAlberta, takes place at Seaman Stadium in Okotoks on Saturday, July 19th. It promises to be filled with family fun and give a stage to the best players in the WCBL.

With that in mind, let’s look back to our top 10 favourite memories from recent All-Star Game festivities …

Cooperstown Calling

A mittful of fresh arrivals are headed for the National Baseball Hall of Fame.

Ichiro Suzuki, CC Sabathia and Billy Wagner will join Dick Allen and Dave Parker as part of the 2025 class.

We look at the ties to Alberta and the Hall of Fame ballot …

Brooks Bombers 2024 Season Preview

The Brooks Bombers have had a taste of playoff baseball and now the team and its fans want more.

That taste came in 2022, when the team qualified for the postseason for the first time in franchise history.

The Bombers missed out on extra August baseball last year, but the focus will be on getting back to the playoffs in 2024.

Fort McMurray Giants 2024 Season Preview

The Fort McMurray Giants have turned the corner.

After entering the Western Canadian Baseball League (WCBL) as an expansion franchise in 2016, the northern Alberta squad experienced their first .500 season in 2019.

Since then, the Giants have qualified for the postseason in consecutive seasons.

Lethbridge Legion Legends

Guest columnist Nathan Reiter provides a look at the origins of the Lethbridge Elks and their entry into the American Legion circuit.

Nathan’s father, Scott, played for the first American Legion Lethbridge Elks team in 1981 …

Big Leaguing in Barrhead

Baseball royalty, meet small-town Alberta.

The elementary school auditorium in a community of a few thousand people, located 120 kilometres northwest of Edmonton, seems an unlikely place to rub elbows with some of the world’s best baseball players and the brightest minds in sports.

Welcome to Barrhead, Alberta in the late 1970s.

In The Cards: 1991 Medicine Hat Blue Jays

We’re not sure why, but banana yellow seemed to be a go-to colour for baseball cards in 1991.

Not only was it the hue for the MLB Fleer set, but it was also featured in the ProCards minor league set.

We sort through the Medicine Hat Blue Jays set and some of the stories of the players from that squad.

In The Cards: 1985 Calgary Cannons

There was a lot of hope in 1985 surrounding the newly-created Calgary Cannons.

The Pacific Coast League affiliate of the Seattle Mariners had just moved in from Salt Lake City and were hoping to improve on their semi-final appearance with much of the roster still in tact.

We take a look at some of those players on that roster with the baseball card set featuring 25 members of that inaugural version of the Cannons.