Edmonton Cracker-Cats: All-Time Team

They may have seemed like a crude replacement, but the Cracker-Cats gave Edmonton baseball fans reason to gush for a number of years.

The pro team set up in the Alberta capital in 2005, replacing the void left by the Trappers of the Pacific Coast League (PCL), a Triple-A outfit that operated from 1981 through 2004.

The Cracker-Cats – who took their name from the energy industry term “fluid catalytic cracking,” which sees crude oil refined into gasoline – were an independent league team, meaning they were not affiliated with any Major League Baseball (MLB) franchises.

Peanuts & Cracker-Cats

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 …

Inspirational Clapp Honoured by Baseball Canada

Stubby Clapp didn’t do a back flip on stage at the Baseball Canada Awards Banquet on Saturday night.

But you get the feeling that if the 51-year-old baseball legend could still do one, he would have.

That’s the kind of joy and pride Clapp felt being at being inducted onto Baseball Canada’s Wall of Excellence.

Clapp Scrap Fever

It was a dizzying time in the career and life of Stubby Clapp.

And that wasn’t just the result of the infielder’s penchant for doing
backflips at the diamond.

We look back at Stubby’s time in Edmonton …

Fisticuffs at Foothills

You can call it baseball’s Battle of Alberta, or the Fracas at Foothills Stadium, or the Cowtown Confrontation.

If you’re unfamiliar with the infamous 2006 brawl between the Calgary Vipers and Edmonton Cracker-Cats, this oral history of the event is a must read …