Hello Friends! I can't recall if I mentioned this on here, but while going through Baseball Reference and Canadian cities that hosted a minor league team, two cities stuck out to me.. Peterborough, and Port Arthur Ontario. Peterborough, dear reader, is my current home. Port Arthur, post 1970, has been one half of the city of Thunder Bay.  Both cities hosted minor league baseball in the 1910s.  I looked into the Peterborough team. It was known as the Whitecaps for two seasons and the Petes for one.  I've hit a dead end on information regarding the team itself aside from a s ..read more

 Hello Friends! Yesterday was Opening Dy across baseball and today I was pondering. After realizing the 2016 Cubs win was the first time the Cubs won in Wrigley, I started thinking about Opening Day win/loss records and Home Opener Win/Loss records..  Specifically for the Toronto Blue Jays. So.. I decided to look into it. After a quite messy method, I got my answers. Of course, to log the Opening Day record, we have to go back to the first Opening Day for the Jays. 1977. April 7 had a nice blizzard blow in before the game, but the team was determined to have the game played. I'm s ..read more

 Hello Friends! Today I'm going to make this one focus on Tyler O'Neill.. Tyler O'Naill was born June 22, 1995 in Burnaby, British Columbia He currently lives in Maple Ridge, British Columbia He was taken in the third round of the 2013 draft by the Seattle Mariners. He worked his way through the Mariners system including a season that won him the Southern League MVP in 2016. The Jackson Generals won the Southern League Championship.  On July 21, 2017, he was traded to the Cardinals for Marco Gonzales and continued working at the Triple A Level, this time in Memphis. In 2017, th ..read more

 Hello Friends! Yes, I know I'm very late to the party of talking about 2024 Topps. I didn't want to say anything until I had some in my grubby little paws..  Thanks to Cardsoncards, AKA Kerry, I have some 2024 Topps now.  It started out him having some cards he wanted to get rid of, and mentioned Tyler O'Neill. Well, being a collector of Canadian born players, I jumped at the chance to widen my collection of his considerably. It also came at a time where I'm dreading the task of going through my collection to ensure what it says I have on TCDB is actually in my collection. I a ..read more

 Hello Friends! Today I'm back with another custom card I made up. Ultimately, I'm looking at this ending up being a set of stadium cards Today, as the title mentions, it's Delorimier Stadium that was in Montreal, Quebec.  So, before the Expos were in Montreal, the city had minor league teams called the Royals dating back to 1897. Starting in the Eastern League (Not the same one as current) the Royals followed along as the League changed names in 1912 to the International League. It was a Double A league until 1945 when it became the current version, Triple A.. From 1928 to 1960, the ..read more

Hello Friends! Tonight I want to share with you another version of the Jarry Park custom I've been working on.  A couple things I didn't like about the first one was the way the logo looked. The other thing I didn't like was the lettering on the bottom.  So I tried another version..  I may touch it up again, depending on how I feel..  So.. Drumroll please.. *drum roll*  *watches the drum roll down the hallway, hopes nobody gets in the way.. hears it bounce down the stairs... *  *ahem...* I think this version looks so much better.. About the only thing I migh ..read more

 Hello Friends! Last post was the front of the card I made for Jarry Park. I may play with it more to improve it some..  But today I created a back for it.  I'm actually pretty happy about how this turned out.. I think the only thing I don't like is not having that much under the line.  I will admit, I borrowed the template from this card: I think if I was using more robust software, I could add things like year by year record and maybe smaller font size.. Though I think some of my friends and fellow collectors may like the font they don't need a magnifying glass for ..read more

 Hello Friends! Well, I've had ideas bouncing around in my head for a while. One of those was to create a set of Stadium custom cards.  Tonight was my first attempt. I just created the front.. I'm likely going to go back and do another try later  But... Here it is I borrowed the bottom design from a Stuart Bakery Expos set. Since it was vertical, I had to rearrange the lines and logo to a horizontal configuration. I'm not 100% sold on the font and debating on if I take another kick at the can, to actually put the logo on, rather than have it as part of the background. And ma ..read more

 Hello Friends! I just finished the book Canadian Minor League Baseball: A History Since WWII It details the year by year results and happenings for the Canadian based teams in the different minor leagues.  The start documents the International League's teams in Toronto, Montreal, and Ottawa. (Toronto and Montreal lasted much longer than Ottawa) Obviously we know Jackie Robinson got his start in "Organized Baseball" in Montreal. There were many Brooklyn Dodgers stars that went through Montreal, really too many to mention, though it is interesting to see names like Gene Mauch, Rola ..read more

 Hello Friends! I'm back today with another installment of Canadians in the Major Leagues, this time focusing on former Cleveland Naps/Indians player Jack Graney (Not calling it Guardians, since he wasn't around under that name)  Jack Graney was born June 10, 1886 in St. Thomas Ontario.  Here is a visual of where St. Thomas is. It's west of Hamilton, south of London. There black square is the location.  He was recommended to the Cubs by another Canadian, Bob Emslie. He spent one year in the Cubs organization, then was sold to Cleveland. He started his Major League career ..read more