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With the NBL/CEBL, Premier League, CFL, and CHL the only major sport where Canada has no professional league will be baseball. It would be nice if regional variations of Ontario's Intercounty Baseball League will spring up and together be part of a national baseball league.
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...you mean like the Western Canadian Baseball League (WCBL) that's been in operation since 1931? :shrug: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wester...aseball_League |
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It seems unlikely to me that we'll see a domestic Canadian baseball league. The habit of just tagging along on whatever the Americans are doing is too entrenched. By contrast, with soccer, the US doesn't dominate the way that it does with baseball, and that leaves some oxygen in the room for a Canadian league.
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The Western Canadian Baseball League is a summer collegiate league. Semi-pro would probably be a more accurate description?
I'm guessing crowds for that typical average 500 - 1000. If it is that low, that is university level gatherings. Not really pro level in my books. |
Intercounty isn't pro ball either.
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https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...474d8786_b.jpg http://www.charliesballparks.com/st/ph/AB-Edmonton-TELUS-2.jpg |
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^^ at capacity for 5,000 people each, Shell Park in Fort McMurray & Saskatoon's Cairns Field are astonishingly teeny tiny.
https://live.staticflickr.com/448/19...bffe1c37_b.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cairns_Field Med Hat & Lethbridge's ballparks are even smaller at 3,000... god forbid |
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When there is a larger facility that no one else is using like in Edmonton or Okotoks, they'll use that. |
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This is Cairns Field (taken from this source, which also says it seats 2000): https://classicballfields.com/baseba...s_field-31.jpg |
^^good catch!, Saskatoon has all the 'bases covered' when it comes to playing ball apparently ;)
.. I was also wondering how 5,000 people could possibly fit in that stadium of picture I posted. The pic you posted looks a lot more likely to host capacity of 5,000 people when Saskatoon had a team in the league. Thanks for correcting pic :tup: |
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They did the same thing for Bob Van Impe when it hosted the Softball Worlds a few years ago, only they had beer gardens and the like in the outfield. As a small aside: that was an amazing event for Saskatoon to host, and hopefully they will do it again soon (I remember the organization being very impressed with the facilities in Saskatoon and PA). |
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Examples of smaller, but legit pro leagues 1. Canadian Premier League 2. NLL 3. American Association of Independent Professional Baseball 4. USL 5. NBA G League 6. Single A Baseball 7. Arena Football |
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I'm still waiting for your synopsis of the Ontario Intercounty Baseball League legitimacy just so you aren't looking like playing favoritism between leagues ;) The original proposition was finding other regional baseball leagues in Canada to 'spring up' & be matched with the Ontario league to have games with. |
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^^ Why have you repeated that WCBL isn't a pro league in each and every single one of your posts regarding, but didn't mention once anything about Ontario InterCounty Baseball League including isn't a pro league & with stadiums capacity averaging around a thousand?
I just want the Ontario league to have equal representation on this forum ;) |
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