Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame
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The Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum (Template:Langx) is a museum located in St. Marys, Ontario, Canada. The museum commemorates the great players, teams, and events from Canadian baseball history.
HistoryEdit
The museum was founded in November 1982 in Toronto at Exhibition Place and later moved to Ontario Place theme park. In August 1994, it was awarded to St. Marys, Ontario, and in June 1998 the doors officially opened in St. Marys. On November 23, 2017, construction began on a Template:Convert expansion to the museum, including a secure archive facility, library, new entrance, and auditorium/exhibition space. The re-designed museum opened to the public on April 27, 2019.<ref name=OurHistory>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
The Hall of Fame and Museum is dedicated to preserving Canada's baseball heritage which dates back to June 4, 1838, when a game which very closely resembled today's game of baseball was played in Beachville, Ontario.<ref name=OurHistory/> University of Western Ontario professor Bob Barney wrote the historical study which advocated for relocating the hall of fame from Toronto to St. Marys, Ontario,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and extensively researched and validated the Beachville game in 1838.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
In 2021, Helen Callaghan, who had played in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL), became the first woman individually inducted to the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame; the Hall had previously inducted, as a group in 1998, all Canadian women who played in the AAGPBL.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
In early 2022, the Hall of Fame was criticized for not inducting the Chatham Coloured All-Stars, the first team of Black Canadians to win an Ontario Baseball Association title.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
AwardsEdit
Since opening, over 160 individual members have been inducted into the hall.<ref name=inductees>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> This includes professional and amateur players, builders, administrators, umpires, broadcasters, writers, and honorary members who have helped popularize the sport in Canada. Several teams or groups have also been inducted.<ref name=inductees/> Multiple members of the hall have also been inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, New York, as players, managers, or executives. Several other inductees have been recipients of the Ford C. Frick Award or BBWAA Career Excellence Award.
In addition, the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame awards the Tip O'Neill Award annually to the Canadian baseball player "judged to have excelled in individual achievement and team contribution while adhering to the highest ideals of the game of baseball" and the Jack Graney Award for Lifetime Media Achievement.<ref>Tip O'Neill Award Template:Webarchive at baseballhalloffame.ca; accessed July 2, 2009</ref><ref>Jack Graney Award Template:Webarchive at baseballhalloffame.ca; accessed July 2, 2009</ref>
FacilitiesEdit
The Template:Convert facility in St. Marys also includes four baseball fields designed by landscape architect Art Lierman of London, Ontario.Template:Citation needed
Rules for nominationsEdit
- A player must be retired for at least three years.
- Must receive 75 percent of the vote to be inducted.
- If the person is not Canadian he must have done something significant with respect to baseball in Canada.
- The person nominated will stay on the ballot for nine years as long as he receives a minimum of one vote every two years.
- All information must be in by December 1 of the year to be eligible for the following year.<ref>Rules for Nominations Template:Webarchive at baseballhalloffame.ca; URL accessed July 2, 2009</ref>
InducteesEdit
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| Template:Dagger | Member of the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York (includes Ford C. Frick Award and BBWAA Career Excellence Award recipients) |
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IndividualsEdit
GroupsEdit
| Name | Year(s) honored | Location | Year inducted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Template:Sort | 1943–1954 | Canada | 1998 |
| Asahi baseball team | 1914–1941 | Vancouver, British Columbia | 2003 |
| Beachville & Zorra amateur teams | 1838 | Ontario | 1988 |
| London Tecumsehs | 1877 | London, Ontario | 2021 |
| National Youth Team (1991 WJC) | 1991 | Brandon, Manitoba | 1992 |
| National Baseball Team (PA 2011) | 2011 | Lagos de Moreno, Mexico | 2012 |
| National Baseball Team (PA 2015) | 2015 | Ajax, Ontario | 2017 |
See alsoEdit
- History of baseball outside the United States#Canada
- London Tecumsehs#Early baseball in Canada
- Category:Baseball in Canada
- Baseball awards#Canada
ReferencesEdit
External linksEdit
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