Due to the ongoing wildfires in the Fort McMurray region, the Fort McMurray Giants (summer collegiate; Western Major Baseball League) will share a ballpark with the Edmonton Prospects. The two clubs will play out of Edmonton’s facility, formerly known as Telus Field, for their entire home slates. (more…)
Keith Tkachuk is so eager to see an independent American Association team in Fort McMurray that he’s willing to spring for it, with or without local investors. The former GM of the Edmonton Capitals (independent; North American League) was in WInnipeg to pitch league officials on the Fort McMurray market and why it would be perfect […]
A rep from Fort McMurray (AB) is in Winnipeg to see how the independent American Association does business, but the odds of indy ball reaching northern Alberta are slim at the very, very best. Tim Reid, chief operating officer of the corporation that runs MacDonald Island Park, where a new ballpark could potentially be housed, […]
Rumors of a new Canadian independent baseball league are surfacing, as the region’s distance from existing circuits is forcing potential owners to stay close to home in search of markets. Several independent leagues — the Northern League, the Golden Baseball League and the North American League — have tried to work on schedules that included […]
A Fort McMurray (Alberta) team is now part of the independent North American League, but the team won’t play next year except perhaps as a road team. Your primer on Fort McMurray: it’s in northeastern Alberta and is in the middle of oil country. The population isn’t large — just some 76,797 residents, according to […]
