Category: Baseball

Baseball in Chatham-Kent

Mckenna Copley To Play For St. Clair College

Mckenna Copley To Play For St. Clair College

CKSN Submissions- August 8, 2022

Dover Centre's Mckenna Copley has committed to play softball for the St. Clair College Saints for 2022. The 5'8" Copley attended École Secondaire de Pain Court ... Read More

Chatham Golden Eagles U15 Team Wins Ontario Title, Headed To Nationals

Chatham Golden Eagles U15 Team Wins Ontario Title, Headed To Nationals

CKSN Staff- August 8, 2022

The champion Chatham Golden Eagles and runner-up Lucan-Ilderton Athletics pose for a photo. The U15 Chatham Golden Eagles won their provincial tournament in Stratford this ... Read More

Huskies Complete Incredible Undefeated Season

Huskies Complete Incredible Undefeated Season

CKSN Submissions- August 5, 2022

The Kent Bridge Huskies finished off their undefeated season in the playoffs by winning 4-0 in a rain-shortened championship game. The winning pitcher was Sarah ... Read More

Fergie Jenkins Will Throw Out First Pitch At London Majors Game

Fergie Jenkins Will Throw Out First Pitch At London Majors Game

CKSN Staff- July 28, 2022

Baseball Hall of Famer and Chicago Cubs legend Fergie Jenkins will throw out the first pitch Friday at Labatt Park in London before the London ... Read More

Golden Eagles Win Waterloo Tournament

Golden Eagles Win Waterloo Tournament

CKSN Staff- June 1, 2022

The Chatham Golden Eagles 15U fastpitch team won the Waterloo Ghosts Invitational tournament over the weekend. Chatham went 3-0 Saturday in pool play defeating the ... Read More

Kent Bridge Returns To The Diamond With A Win

Kent Bridge Returns To The Diamond With A Win

CKSN Submissions- May 23, 2022

In the Lambton Kent Ladies Fastball League tonight the Kent Bridge Huskies defeated Corunna by a score of 16-0 in a four inning mercy rule ... Read More

Chatham Coloured All-Stars Receive Order of Sport

Chatham Coloured All-Stars Receive Order of Sport

CKSN Staff- May 12, 2022

The Chatham Coloured All-Stars are finally receiving the recognition they deserve. The fabled local team, who became the first all-Black baseball team to win a ... Read More

Fergie Jenkins Statue To Be Unveiled May 20

Fergie Jenkins Statue To Be Unveiled May 20

CKSN Staff- April 19, 2022

Outside Wrigley Field in Chicago, a new statue honouring Chatham's Fergie Jenkins will be unveiled May 20. Jenkins spent 19 seasons in Major League Baseball, ... Read More

Group Looking At Chatham To House Semi-Professional Baseball Team

Group Looking At Chatham To House Semi-Professional Baseball Team

CKSN Staff- March 28, 2022

The Intercounty Baseball League (IBL) is one of Canada's longest running and most successful baseball leagues. In the near future, an IBL expansion team could ... Read More

MPP Percy Hatfield Urges Inclusion Of Chatham Coloured All-Stars in Hall of Fame

MPP Percy Hatfield Urges Inclusion Of Chatham Coloured All-Stars in Hall of Fame

CKSN Staff- March 22, 2022

Windsor-Tecumseh MPP Percy Hatfield spoke in provincial legislature Monday in favour of including the Chatham Coloured All-Stars into the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame. "....it’s ... Read More

A Legacy of Impact, The Chatham Coloured All-Stars | Black History Month

A Legacy of Impact, The Chatham Coloured All-Stars | Black History Month

CKSN Staff- February 23, 2022

The Chatham Coloured All-Stars will stand in history as one of the most impactful and important teams in Canadian Baseball history. Members of the Ontario ... Read More

The Chatham-Kent Connection That Got Jackie Robinson To The Majors | Black History Month

The Chatham-Kent Connection That Got Jackie Robinson To The Majors | Black History Month

Ian Kennedy- February 17, 2022

Without Wendell Smith, the history of sport may look completely different. He challenged ideas, racism, and exclusion in sport one word at a time. It’s ... Read More

Flat Chase Was a Baseball Legend | Black History Month

Flat Chase Was a Baseball Legend | Black History Month

CKSN Staff- February 16, 2022

Born in Buxton, Ontario in 1910, Earl “Flat” Chase was one of the region’s top young baseball players in the first half of the 1900’s. ... Read More

Toronto Blue Jays Skills Camp Coming To Chatham

Toronto Blue Jays Skills Camp Coming To Chatham

CKSN Submissions- February 15, 2022

The Toronto Blue Jays have announced that the Chatham Minor Baseball Association has been selected once again to host of a 2022 Honda Instructional Clinic at Fergie ... Read More