It was all about winning and Stubby Clapp didn’t want it any other way.
The versatile infielder and outfielder from Windsor, Ontario had played at the NCAA Division 1 level. He had rode the buses in the minor leagues. Clapp even made it to The Show in 2001, when he suited up for the St. Louis Cardinals for 23 games.
Wedged into that full and varied playing career was a stop in Edmonton …
Read More Peanuts & Cracker-CatsIt was the Greg Hamilton those of us in the Canadian baseball community have come to know and respect so deeply.
Fresh off being named a 2025 Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame inductee, Hamilton, who in his leadership role with Baseball Canada has overseen the most successful era in national teams history, participated in the Hall’s media call on Wednesday afternoon.
Read More Hamilton to the HallThe Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum has named its 2025 class of inductees and the group includes a home-run hero, a southpaw strikeout artist, a baseball pioneer, a national development guru and a pair of stars in the women’s game.
Read More The Call to the HallThey 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 ConsiderationOne of the best pitchers to ever suit up for the Toronto Blue Jays and a player who got his start in professional baseball in Alberta has been selected for induction in the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum.
Lefty hurler Jimmy Key was one of six people named as part of the 2024 induction class recently, adding the honour to his list of achievements, which includes a pair of World Series rings and five Major League Baseball (MLB) All-Star appearances.
Read More Key AdditionExamining the Hall-of-Fame career of Alberta pitcher Jimmy Rattlesnake.
The “Smilin’ Rattler” was an elite lefty pitcher in the 1930s and 1940s.
He is a member of the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame’s 2021 induction class …
Read More The Smilin’ RattlerWe look at the 2019 Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame induction class.
It includes former Calgary Cannon pitcher Ryan Dempster, long-time Blue Jays GM Gord Ash, former Yankee bench coach Rob Thomson and Trail, B.C. product Jason Bay.
Read More Hall PassThe road to the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame can sometimes go through some unexpected places. For Oakland native Lloyd Moseby, it might have felt like an episode of “The Amazing Race” on his way to Medicine Hat.
Read More Helicopters, Cows, Horses and the Hall of Fame