Our Game, Too: Influential Figures and Milestones in Canadian Baseball

Frank Shaughnessy: The Ottawa Years

Frank Shaughnessy (middle, second row) guided the 1913 Ottawa…
Our Game, Too: Influential Figures and Milestones in Canadian Baseball

The Vancouver Asashi

Triple Crown Winners: Champions of three different leagues…
Our Game, Too: Influential Figures and Milestones in Canadian Baseball

Batted Balls and Bayonets: Baseball and The Canadian Expeditionary Force 1914-1918

Canadian soldiers play baseball against their American allies…
Our Game, Too: Influential Figures and Milestones in Canadian Baseball

Punching Above Its Weight: The Quebec Provincial League

The 1949 Drummondville Cubs, Quebec Provincial League champions.…
Our Game, Too: Influential Figures and Milestones in Canadian Baseball

The Quebec Adventures of Chappie Johnson’s All Stars

The 1936 Black Panthers. Charlie Culver is the first on the…
Our Game, Too: Influential Figures and Milestones in Canadian Baseball

The Broadview Buffaloes

The Broadview Buffaloes in front of the Broadview, Saskatchewan,…
Our Game, Too: Influential Figures and Milestones in Canadian Baseball

A Second Strike: Baseball and the Canadian Armed Forces During World War II

The Canadian Military Headquarters team defeated their American…
Our Game, Too: Influential Figures and Milestones in Canadian Baseball

Canadian Teams in the Pony League Pipeline to the Majors

The Pennsylvania-Ontario-New York (PONY) League was a Class-D…
Our Game, Too: Influential Figures and Milestones in Canadian Baseball

Canadians in the AAGPBL

The Callaghan sisters, Helen (left) and Margaret. (British…
Our Game, Too: Influential Figures and Milestones in Canadian Baseball

Montréal and Jackie Robinson

A mural in Montréal attests to Jackie Robinson's popularity…
Our Game, Too: Influential Figures and Milestones in Canadian Baseball

The Halifax and District League: Postwar Baseball in the Maritimes, 1946-1960

Prince Edward Island native and H&D League alumnus…
Our Game, Too: Influential Figures and Milestones in Canadian Baseball

Indian Head and Canada’s Greatest Baseball Tournament, 1947-55

Indian Head Rockets sweater crest, 1951. (Indian Head…
Our Game, Too: Influential Figures and Milestones in Canadian Baseball

The True Greatness of the ManDak League

The 1950 ManDak League Champion Winnipeg Buffaloes, featuring…
Our Game, Too: Influential Figures and Milestones in Canadian Baseball

End of an Era: The Demise of the Montréal Royals

One could make a case that, between 1941 and 1953, the Montréal…
Our Game, Too: Influential Figures and Milestones in Canadian Baseball

From a Canadian Baseball Researcher’s Notebook

Al Kermisch, who joined SABR in 1971, was a baseball researcher…

Marvels or Menaces: How the Press Covered ‘The Lady Baseballists,’ 1865-1915

It wasn’t so long ago that sports historians spent little…

Lizzie Murphy: An All-Star at Fenway Park

To date, there has only been one woman who played baseball…

Black Women Playing Baseball: An Introduction

  The fiftieth anniversary of the passage of Title…

Babe Didrikson and Baseball

  For most of Babe Didrikson’s life, Major League Baseball…

Bernice Gera and the Trial of Being First

  On June 24, 1972, Bernice Gera became the first…

‘It’s Like Coming Back to Paradise’: Willie Mays and the Mets

  Mother’s Day, 1972. Willie Mays had just smacked…
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