Let’s Play Two

It was an event that baseball fans in Saskatchewan had never dreamed was possible, and it went so well that they ended up experiencing it twice.

A press conference in January of 1989 was held at Regina’s Sheraton Centre to announce that the Toronto Blue Jays were coming to play an exhibition game at Taylor Field – home of the Canadian Football League’s Saskatchewan Roughriders – in May.

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Rocket Men

It started as a simple trip to the United States in search of a solid roster for baseball tournaments in Saskatchewan.

Little did Indian Head mayor Jim Robison and his contingent know, who they recruited would forever change the landscape of baseball in his province and inspire future generations of ballplayers.

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10 Movies We Like

Hollywood will soon celebrate another edition of the Academy Awards in Los Angeles, and hand out Oscars to the most critically acclaimed movies of the year.

We’re also big film lovers, but we have a certain type. We like baseball movies, or at the very least ones that have memorable baseball scenes in them. We also give bonus points to movies that have some kind of connections to Alberta and Saskatchewan.

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The Call to the Hall

The 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.

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Tall Times in the West

By IAN WILSON Leroy Paige easily could have adopted the nickname “Satchel” for the amount of travel he did over a pitching career that spanned five decades. The lanky right-hander made a name for himself in the Negro Leagues long before he put his stamp on Major League Baseball (MLB), but he also played in the […]

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