By Stephen Weir Attention carnival revellers who are also baseball enthusiasts, the Toronto Blue Jays are set to bring a pair of Caribbean special events to Rogers Centre with their much-anticipated 2024 Blue Jays Caribbean Carnival night at the baseball stadium. This marks the third consecutive year for the Blue Jays Caribbean Carnival, scheduled for […]
Inducts 91-year-old Nat Bates into Hall of Fame Late last year, a 20-minute documentary film was released. It is called Golden Opportunities, and it was about the Indian Head Rockets, an all-black team that was based in Indian Head, Saskatchewan, during the 1940s and 1950s. The film noted the popularity of baseball but also described […]
Arjun Nimmala, the 17-year old Florida high school short stop, was drafted 20th overall by the Toronto Blue Jays on Sunday. Nimmala became the highest-selected first generation Indian American and is looking forward to become the first person of Indian descent to play Major League Baseball. He was one of the highest-touted high school hitters […]
There will be no “Naylors only” party in Cleveland, but the family of Guardians brothers Josh and Bo still has plenty to celebrate. Youngest sibling Myles, a 6-foot-2, 195-pound infielder from Mississauga, Ontario, was selected Sunday by Oakland with the 39th overall pick in the 2023 MLB Draft. Myles becomes the third Naylor brother from […]
Reviving and celebrating Ontario history on the baseball field and in a video game! Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation (OLG), in partnership with Major League Baseball (MLB), is immortalizing the 1934 Chatham Coloured All-Stars – the first all-Black team to win an Ontario Baseball Association Championship – in a very unique way. OLG and […]
A new online exhibit aims to demonstrate how learning Black history is essential to understanding the formation of Alberta. The new exhibit by Edmonton City as Museum Project explores the formation of Alberta’s Black communities from the late 1800s to the early 1970s. “What I want people to take away is the activism, the […]
Thirteen years before Jackie Robinson broke the colour barrier in the MLB, the Chatham Coloured All-Stars became the first baseball team with Black players to compete in a championship in Ontario. The team played the Penetang Shipbuilders in the Provincial Ontario Baseball Amateur Association championship in 1934 in its second year in the league. The […]
At least nine young Cuban baseball players have defected during a tournament in Mexico, officials say, in the largest defection of Cuban athletes in years. Cuban officials called the players’ actions during the World Cup for athletes under the age of 23 “vile abandonments”, state media report. The rest of the team, which originally had […]
Two Jamaicans, including former Jamaica College stand out Nick Richards, were selected in last week’s National Basketball Association’s (NBA) Draft that was conducted virtually for the first time because of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. Isaiah Stewart, who attended the University of Washington, was taken with the 16th pick in the first round while Richards who […]
Toronto Blue Jays rightfelder Teoscar Hernandez has won a Silver Slugger Award for the first time in his career. The 28-year-old Hernandez, a native of the Dominican Republic, broke out as one of the game’s top sluggers in the shortened 2020 season for the Blue Jays. He hit 16 home runs with 34 RBIs in […]