Carnival and cricket on Blue Jays’ home plate in May and July

Carnival and cricket on Blue Jays’ home plate in May and July

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 […]

Saskatchewan celebrates their 1952 all-Black Indian Head Rockets baseball team

Saskatchewan celebrates their 1952 all-Black Indian Head Rockets baseball team

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 […]

Nimmala drafted 20th overall by Toronto Blue Jays

Nimmala drafted 20th overall by Toronto Blue Jays

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 […]

Three Canadian brothers drafted into the MLB

Three Canadian brothers drafted into the MLB

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 […]

Video game, film to immortalize the 1930’s black all-stars baseball team

Video game, film to immortalize the 1930’s black all-stars baseball team

  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 […]

Black history in Alberta brought to life          

Black history in Alberta brought to life          

  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 […]

Black players on Ontario baseball team will be honoured by relatives this Saturday  

Black players on Ontario baseball team will be honoured by relatives this Saturday   

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 […]

Cuban baseball players “jump ship” during tournament in Mexico

Cuban baseball players “jump ship” during tournament in Mexico

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 make NBA Draft

Two Jamaicans make NBA Draft

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 […]

Blue Jays outfielder Teoscar Hernandez wins Silver Slugger Award

Blue Jays outfielder Teoscar Hernandez wins  Silver Slugger Award

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 […]