
Early Batteries From The Great White North
The 1884 New York Gothams, featuring catcher Jack Humphries…

Tip O’Neill: A Season Of Firsts
Tip O'Neill was inducted into Canada's Sports Hall of Fame…

Mixed Outcomes: Canada’s Black Baseball Legacy
The London, Ontario, baseball tournament held toward the end…

Montreal Royals Beginnings
When tasked with discussing the first game in the history of…

Professional Baseball Comes To Toronto To Stay: The Toronto Baseball Club In The Eastern League, 1895
The first game played by the Toronto-based professional baseball…

Frank Shaughnessy: The Ottawa Years
Frank Shaughnessy (middle, second row) guided the 1913 Ottawa…

The Vancouver Asashi
Triple Crown Winners: Champions of three different leagues…

Batted Balls and Bayonets: Baseball and The Canadian Expeditionary Force 1914-1918
Canadian soldiers play baseball against their American allies…

Punching Above Its Weight: The Quebec Provincial League
The 1949 Drummondville Cubs, Quebec Provincial League champions.…

The Quebec Adventures of Chappie Johnson’s All Stars
The 1936 Black Panthers. Charlie Culver is the first on the…

The Broadview Buffaloes
The Broadview Buffaloes in front of the Broadview, Saskatchewan,…

A Second Strike: Baseball and the Canadian Armed Forces During World War II
The Canadian Military Headquarters team defeated their American…

Canadian Teams in the Pony League Pipeline to the Majors
The Pennsylvania-Ontario-New York (PONY) League was a Class-D…

Canadians in the AAGPBL
The Callaghan sisters, Helen (left) and Margaret. (British…

Montréal and Jackie Robinson
A mural in Montréal attests to Jackie Robinson's popularity…

The Halifax and District League: Postwar Baseball in the Maritimes, 1946-1960
Prince Edward Island native and H&D League alumnus…

Indian Head and Canada’s Greatest Baseball Tournament, 1947-55
Indian Head Rockets sweater crest, 1951. (Indian Head…

The True Greatness of the ManDak League
The 1950 ManDak League Champion Winnipeg Buffaloes, featuring…

End of an Era: The Demise of the Montréal Royals
One could make a case that, between 1941 and 1953, the Montréal…

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…