Top of the Tenth October 12, 2018
Museum update: BaAM’s design work is coming along nicely and we are bat-proofing (the flying type) the old part of the museum to further protect the artifacts.
Scott continues to sort and organize items in the collection, assisted by volunteers Ken Dodd, who’s helping with the bats (the baseball kind) and Andrew North, who is sorting the 1000s of books and magazines. Scott spoke with the K40 club in Stratford last week.
On the diamonds, the Ontario Nationals round out the season with games running until the 21st, assuming the weather cooperates.
The Jays championship displays have always been popular with visitors to the museum and we expect nothing less in the remodelled facility.
Speaking of London, the downtown branch of the London Public Library is hosting a display of selected items from the Centre for Canadian Baseball Research. Located on the 3rd floor outside the London Room, the display features materials available in the Centre’s research library, among them a handful of 19th-century guides, one of the earliest histories of the game from 1902, and a set of the first baseball tobacco cards from 1887. Selected books highlight aspects of Canada’s baseball past, from histories of now-defunct leagues to the story of baseball in Toronto before the Blue Jays. The display will be open to the public throughout the month of October, leading up to the Centre’s annual Canadian Baseball History Conference which takes place this year on November 3rd and 4th.
We were pleased to learn that Historica Canada is set to film a national public service Heritage Minute featuring 2003 CBHFM Inductees the Vancouver Asahi. The Georgia Straight reports that the production is shooting this week, with locations in Vancouver and at the site of a former internment camp in the Sunshine Valley in Hope, BC.
Recommended: The above-mentioned John Axford is driving from Oakland, CA to Hamilton, ON by himself and is documenting his road trip on Instagram. Follow John here and check out his entertaining Twitter account too.