Tag: Baseball
Former classmates at Ryerson school reminisce at 70th reunion
As the kids headed back to the classroom on Tuesday, a group of former classmates were back where their school journeys all began for them exactly 70 years ago. Close to 25 members of the 1954 morning and afternoon kindergarten classes at Ryerson Public School descended on their old stomping grounds at the base of […]
With London Majors season over, big roster changes may loom
Franchise pillars Cleveland Brownlee and Byron Reichstein have been year-to-year for a while now. The absences of star pitcher Owen Boon and veteran infielder Keith Kandel, who stopped playing this season, were magnified after London was ravaged by key injuries down the stretch. The shorthanded Majors fell in a 3-0 Intercounty Baseball League second-round sweep […]
Baysox bats explode in winner-take-all game, Owen Sound to play for the NDBL championship
The Owen Sound Baysox are one series away from a championship. On Labour Day Monday, the ‘Sox won a winner-take-all Game 6 in New Lowell with a late offensive explosion, beating the Knights 12-0. After a scoreless first four innings, Owen Sound’s bats came alive. Kirk Gibson sparked the onslaught with a three-run home run […]
It’s a hit! Young extras thrilled as Labatt Park-filmed baseball movie opens
It wasn’t something they ever dreamed of doing, but three young local baseball players have made their silver-screen debuts in a feel-good sports movie featuring a pair of Hollywood stars and filmed at one of London’s crown jewels.
Baysox force a winner-moves-on Game 6 with last-inning dramatics
The Owen Sound Baysox and New Lowell Knights will go the distance in their North Dufferin Baseball League semifinal series. Down 3-2 in the last-chance-bottom-of-the-seventh-inning, Owen Sound speedster Robert Doyle stood on third base and broke for home as soon as he saw Nick Hodgson’s breaking ball bounce in front of home plate. Doyle called […]