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Pro baseball headed back to Victoria

Pro baseball headed back to Victoria Golden Baseball League team expected to begin play in May at Royal Athletic CLEVE DHEENSAW Times Colonist Victoria will take a swing again at professional baseball next summer with a franchise in the Golden Baseball League. The Times Colonist has learned an expansion team will play at Royal Athletic Park, with an official announcement to be made Oct. 1. The story recently broke in the Calgary Herald, which reported: "The Calgary Vipers and Edmonton Cracker-Cats may have new Canadian rivals in the Golden Baseball League as soon as next season. Victoria and a B.C. Interior city, -Kamloops or Kelowna - are tentatively expected to field franchises in the league in 2009." Albertan Darren Parker, whose father Russ Parker owns the junior hockey Regina Pats of the WHL and who also owned the Triple-A baseball Calgary Cannons from 1985 to 2001, was in Langford in January looking into the feasibility of a Golden league franchise for Greater Victoria. The Edmonton Sun also reported earlier this month: "[Darren] Parker and his father Russ are making their way to Victoria to start a Golden league franchise." Darren Parker refused comment when reached yesterday. The only new GBL franchise officially announced for next season is the former Triple-A Tucson Toros of Arizona, who will play at Hi Corbett Field, the spring training stadium of the Colorado Rockies. The Orange County Flyers, managed by Baseball Hall of Fame member Gary Carter and coached by 1985 American League home-run champion Darrell Evans, defeated Calgary three games to two in the bestof-five 2008 GBL playoff final which concluded this week. Carter and Evans are among the list of former major-league players who 1 manage or coach teams in the Golden league, including 1981 World Series MVP Steve Yeager of the Long Beach Armada, former National League all-star Mike Marshall of the Yuma Scorpions, former NL championship series MVP Jeffrey Leonard of the Reno Silver Sox and former U.S. Olympian and AL slugger Cory Snyder of the St. George Roadrunners of Utah. The Golden league is entering its fifth season and was founded in 2005 by two baseball-obsessed Stanford University students David Kaval and Amit Patel as a class project, backed by a group of investors that included Tim Draper, the father of viral marketing, Ross Peters of Ross Stores and Sta- ples, Cisco Systems vice-president Kevin Outcalt and Wheel of Fortune host Pat Sajak. Calgary and Edmonton are currently the two Canadian franchises in the circuit, although the Edmonton situation has become unsettled. The 2008 teams included Calgary, Edmonton, Long Beach, Orange County, Reno, St. George, Yuma, and Chico, Calif. Each team played 88 games in a regular-season running from May to Aug. 31. The 2009 schedule is not finalized. The GBL is among seven independent pro baseball leagues in North America. Teams are not affiliated with major-league clubs but are another portal of development. The Golden league lists more than 50 alumni, who have had their contracts purchased by major-league teams with those players placed on respective Triple-A, Double-AA, Single-A or rookie league teams. Rickey Henderson and Jose Canseco are among the former major leaguers who have played in the Golden league. In the immediate previous attempt at pro baseball in Victoria, the Capitals were the surprise lone hit at the gate in, the Canadian Baseball League, which folded in the midst of its inaugural season in 2003. Other pro baseball teams in the capital were the Mussels and Blues of the Northwest League at RAP from 1978 to 1980 and the New York Yankees' affiliate Athletics and Tyees at RAP from 1946 to 1954.
Article from 18 Sep 2008Times Colonist(Victoria, British Columbia, Canada)
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