Tag: Roop Chanderdat
Play ball! New-look London Majors look to keep pace with IBL elites
Roop Chanderdat is sticking with history and tradition. Though the London Majors will play two Intercounty Baseball League home games this summer as the Forest City Cobra Chickens, there is no name change forthcoming. “We’re the Majors,” the club’s longtime co-owner and manager said. “It’s exciting that an April fool’s joke took off like that. […]
Jr. B playoffs: London Nationals drop Game 1 in St. Marys
The London Nationals swept away defending Sutherland Cup champion Listowel in the first round of the Greater Ontario Junior Hockey League playoffs. Last year’s Cup finalists, however, are already proving a much more difficult test. The first-place St. Marys Lincolns jumped out to a four-goal lead in a Western Conference semifinal series-opening 4-2 victory over […]
How ’bout them Cobra Chickens? London Majors fans embrace gag name
A London baseball team’s April Fools’ Day prank is such a hit out of the park, the players are going to wear it on their chests.
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 […]
IBL playoffs: London Majors, Barrie Baycats set for semifinal showdown
The London Majors knocked out the Hamilton Cardinals in four games.