Reunion of Prairie Baseball Players to be Held in Saskatchewan
Book Our Game, Too Featured in CBC Production
CBC Saskatchewan has recently completed a multimedia project based on the Indian Head Rockets of the early 1950s. A 25-minute version of the reporting was released at year end, and is available for viewing here: The report mentions the Centre’s joint (with SABR) publication, Our Game, Too, which includes a chapter on the Rockets and […]
Christian Trudeau Interviewed by Radio-Canada on the Eve of New Journal Launch
The University of Windsor’s Christian Trudeau, our resident expert on Quebec baseball, and the Quebec Provincial League in particular, was interviewed by Radio-Canada in early November of 2022, just before the Canadian Baseball History Conference at which the new Journal of Canadian Baseball was officially launched. An English transcript of his interview follows; to listen […]
New Book on Maritime Baseball
SABR member and maritime baseball expert Colin Howell of St. Mary’s University in Halifax has completed another book. Entitled Hardscrabble Diamonds, it discusses postwar baseball in New England and the Maritimes. Publication is expected this fall, but the book is available for pre-order now through the publisher here.
Our Game, Too Published
A book entitled Our Game, Too: Influential Figures and Milestones in Canadian Baseball has just been published by SABR, the Society for American Baseball Research. A joint initiative of the Centre for Canadian Baseball Research and SABR’s Hanlan’s Point (Greater Toronto) Chapter, the book features 50 essays describing the people and events that contributed to […]
Canadian Baseball History Conference Confirmed
The 5th Canadian Baseball History Conference will be held at the University of Windsor on the second weekend of November, 2022. Join us for two full days of research presentations on a wide variety of topics related to Canada’s rich and diverse baseball history. For details, and information regarding registration and submission of abstracts, click […]
Preview of Upcoming Book on Canadian Baseball
As announced some months ago, the Centre has undertaken an initiative with SABR to produce a book highlighting the influential figures and milestone events in the history of Canadian baseball. The result is to be published by SABR in both electronic and print form in the spring of 2022. To download a video previewing the […]
Journal of Canadian Baseball
When the Centre for Canadian Baseball Research was founded in 2016, one of our objectives was to publish the results of our contributors’ research. While we took a step in this direction by posting the papers from the annual Canadian Baseball History Conference to this website, we are now able to achieve this goal more […]
2022 Canadian Baseball History Conference
The fifth Canadian Baseball History Conference is planned for early November of 2022. After a two-year hiatus due to the coronavirus pandemic, we hope to return to an in-person event, this one in downtown Toronto. Specific dates and location will be confirmed in the new year. Please consider this announcement a preliminary Call for Papers […]
Our Game, Too: The Development of Canadian Baseball
The Centre for Canadian Baseball Research, and the broader membership of SABR’s Hanlan’s Point Chapter, are pleased to announce the pending publication of a book about the historical development of baseball in Canada. The book is to be published by SABR in the spring of 2022, in both print and electronic form, so that it […]