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.

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.

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 […]

Wapella’s Near-Perfect Summer

It was one of the most impressive performances the province of Saskatchewan has ever seen on a baseball field.

A team based out of Wapella, with a population of just 400, nearly ran the table for the entire summer of 1924, winning 16 of 20 tournaments they played in.

They also won three games against the famous Brandon Greys.