Do any Canadian Universities have a baseball team?

Question

alyson818, wut is ur point:S.......and yes there is baseball in canada:O surpsrise surprise, heard of justin morneau and jason bay

Answer 1

Of course.
SPITZ Canadian College Baseball Championship Tournament
May 11-14 2007

Teams
1. Prairie Baseball Academy Dawgs ( PBA)
2. Thompson River University Wolves (TRU)
3. Kwantlen College Eagles (KC)
4. Malaspina College Mariners (MC)
5. University of Calgary Dinos ( U of C)

Answer 2

Canadians don't have baseball.

Answer 3

What are you talking aboot?

Answer 4

huh

Answer 5

BASEBALL
Baseball is truly an American pastime. The origin of the sport can be traced back to colonial America and the English settlers around 1700. The mixing of cultures coming from Ireland, Scotland, Germany, and Africa to America also brought versions of what developed into the sport we know as baseball. The English version was called "rounders." During the Revolutionary War (1775-1783), the American soldiers were known to play "base." The true sport of baseball took root in America around the 1800's. It was called "towneball." In the late 1800's, it became known as "baste ball."
The original logistics for American baseball are believed to have been invented by Abner Doubleday (1819-1893). Doubleday was living in Cooperstown New York when he arrived at his essential ideas for the game of baseball back in 1839. Doubleday's game of baseball was very similar to the English game of "rounders," nevertheless, the interest which he brought to the area of Cooperstown, New York and baseball made him a recognizable name. The name of Doubleday became directly linked to the residents who helped to establish the National Baseball Hall of Fame and its museum. Abner Doubleday was an 1842 graduate of the U.S. Military Academy. He served in both the Mexican War (1846-1848) and the American Civil War (1861-1865). He died in 1893, but very little had surfaced about his true claim to being The Inventor of Baseball.

Baseball as an organized sport was established by a New York City sportsman named Alexander Cartwright. The Knickerbocker Base Ball Club of New York was the name chosen by Cartwright, and this club became the prime source for the first rules governing baseball. The first established, organized baseball game was held on June 19, 1846 between the New York Nine and the Knickerbocker Club in Hoboken, New Jersey. The Nines won the game 23 to 1. African Americans were excluded from the original Knickerbocker Club, but, by 1858, the National Association of Baseball Players (NABBP) was organized and did welcome African Americans as members. After the Civil War (1861-1865), baseball began to spread out to other places, mainly in large cities in the United States. The different clubs and leagues became more segregated by race and ethnicity during this period. By 1871, the NABBP had decided to exclude "colored" members from their clubs. Therefore, African Americans were forced to join, stay, and play in exclusive all black baseball leagues. These all black baseball teams were later identified as The ***** Leagues.

From 1871 to 1947, African American baseball players were locked in and forced to play only those teams made up of "negroes." As the all white baseball teams grew in numbers, right beside them were the developing number of all black teams. Baseball was so popular that, by 1869, the first professional organized team came onto the scene by the name of the Cincinnati Red Stockings. Recruiting the top players was the key to developing a highly professional ball club. By 1876, eight professional teams formulated the first Major League within the National League. By 1901, eight teams made up the American League. Baseball in America had become the prime spectator sport in America. It became so important to the American general public that baseball became known as the national pastime.

The early records of African American players playing as professionals on local league teams were not well documented. To have the necessary status of being "professional," these players had to join the all white teams in one of the major leagues. Two of the earliest players were Bud Fowler (his birth name was John Jackson), born in Cooperstown, New York in 1858 and Moses Fleetwood Walker, born in 1857 in Mount Pleasant, Ohio. Bud Fowler, by 1872, was playing on the New Castle, Pennsylvania (the Keokuk) as the only African American player. Fowler, like many of the early players, could move about and play several other team positions. He played for fourteen different teams for a career spanning twenty-five years but never was able to cross over into the National League due to his race. Moses Fleetwood Walker, called Fleet Walker, grew up in Ohio and later attended Oberlin College along with his brother, Welday "Weldy" Walker. Oberlin College was one of the earliest American universities to integrate its student body. Fleet Walker and Weldy Walker both helped to start a varsity baseball team for Oberlin College. Fleet Walker later attended the University of Michigan's law school but left in the year of 1883 and joined the Toledo Blue Stockings of the minor Northwestern League as its catcher. When the Blue Stockings were admitted to the major league American Association in 1884, Moses Fleetwood Walker became the first African American to join the ranks of professional major league baseball. After forty-two games with Toledo, Moses Walker could not be retained. In order for Toledo to play in other areas of the country, they had to dismiss their "colored" players, thus ending the early progress of integrated teams in baseball.

In an effort to keep on playing organized, professional baseball, African Americans had to get the necessary backing. By the summer of 1885, Frank Thompson out in Babylon, Long Island started his own team called the Cuban Giants. The Cuban Giants were not from Cuba, but they did not want the general public to know they were African Americans but, rather, only here from another country to play baseball in the U.S.A. Some African American teams were playing against some all white teams, but, whenever the issue of race surfaced, the games were canceled. Money also became the issue. African American ball players made three times less than a White-American ball player competing in similar positions in the major leagues. African Americans, if they were good, could play in the minor leagues but not in the major leagues.

History pushed African American baseball players forward. They now had formulated their own professional league called the League of Colored Baseball Clubs. The founding teams were: Boston Resolutes
New York Gorham
Philadelphia Pythians
Washington Capital Cities
Pittsburgh Keystones
Norfolk (Virginia) Red Stockings
Cincinnati Crowns,
Lord Baltimores
Louisville Fall Cities

In 1888, these all black teams had to compete in a playoff tournament to determine the best in the club. The first "Colored Championships of America" winners were: First place: Cuban Giants
Second place: Pittsburgh Keystones
Third place: New York Gorhams
Forth place: Norfolk Red Stockings

Even when these clubs began to wane, the rudiments of baseball for African Americans were firmly rooting in the sport as an enjoyable pastime. By 1890, predominantly black colleges and universities were "creating" baseball athletes in this popular sport. The formation of the Colored Intercollegiate Athletic Association also helped develop future African American baseball players by 1912. The First World War (1914-1918) also saw the segregated units of African American soldiers playing in regimental tournaments as baseball players. One noted team was the 25th Infantry, who developed a record as "the best of the Black teams" through World War I. The first World Series for baseball was in 1903 between the Boston Red Socks of the American League and the Pittsburgh Pirates of the National League. Boston won 5-3 games in the series. Millions of people were glued to the series, and everyone's models became the American baseball players. With the growing popularity of television in the 1940's and 1950's, baseball was elevated to the national pastime for the majority of Americans.

In the midst of keeping the ***** Leagues up to standards as a separate professional league came the great efforts of Andrew "Rube" Foster. Foster kept the dream alive by becoming an owner of the Chicago American Giants. His untiring work earned him the reputation of being "the Father of Black Baseball." Rube Foster had been a player and manager of the Chicago Leland Giants. Foster, by February 14, 1920, had brought together the top African American teams and their owners and formulated the ***** National League (NNL). The excitement behind Foster's efforts was his ability at getting lease and rental space time at available stadiums during the 1920's. Foster was able to see the "***** World Series" and his Chicago American Giants beat the Eastern Colored League in 1926. FOSTER died in 1930.

The American Economic Depression (1929-1934) had over 14 million Americans out of work. All baseball leagues were almost destroyed during this period, including most teams in the ***** Baseball League. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, under the New deal (March 4, 1933 until his death on April 12, 1945), brought America back to the road of economic recovery. Two years later, the ***** National League folded in 1948. Some African American greats came out of this league. Among them: Leroy "Satchel" Paige
Josh Gibson
Walter "Buck" Leonard
James "Cool Papa" Bell
Ray Dandridge
Bobby Robinson

to name only a few. By the early 1950's, the ***** League was closed out. The ***** American League, which started in 1937, survived until the early 1960's.




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REMEMBER JACKIE ROBINSON
Robinson became the first African American to play in major league baseball when Branch Rickey, president of the Brooklyn Dodgers, signed Robinson up as the first African American in modern day history to cross over with a contract to play for the Brooklyn Dodgers. Robinson was first assigned to the Dodgers' minor league affiliate, The Montreal Royals on October 23, 1945. His entrance to the major league was on April 15, 1947 when Robinson made his debut as a player at Ebbets Fields for the Brooklyn Dodgers. Robinson was a former player on the Kansas City Monarchs all black team. With this door opened, the history of African Americans in baseball started a knew era which made the long dream come true for countless players aiming for a chance to show their talents in the majors.