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Canada national baseball team; List of Major League Baseball players from Canada; Pearson Cup; Washington Nationals, MLB; formerly the Montreal Expos (1969–2004) (National League) United League: A planned third league of Major League Baseball that was formed in the early 1990s and was to have begun play in the late 1990s in Canada and the ...
Parkhurst Products was a Canadian confectionery manufacturing company based in Toronto.Parkhurst also produced Parkies and Zip trading cards in the 1950s and 1960s. Led by George Kennedy, it primarily produced hand-size picture cards mainly for ice hockey, but also for baseball, Canadian football, wrestling and other subjects.
Sports cards are a variety of trading card, small cards usually made of cardboard, which feature an image of an athlete or athletes along with identifying text. The earliest sports cards were promotional materials usually included with tobacco products and candy and often bearing an advertisement on the reverse. The value of a sports card ...
Canada has professional sports teams in eight sports across twenty-one leagues. Canadian teams compete in top-level American and Canadian-based leagues, including three of the four major professional sports leagues. Canada also has minor league teams competing in American and Canadian-based basketball, hockey, soccer, and baseball leagues.
Major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada; Major professional sports teams in the United States and Canada; List of U.S. and Canadian cities by number of major professional sports teams; Prominent women's sports leagues in the United States and Canada; List of top level minor league sports teams in the United States by city
Canada Life Centre: 15,321 Baseball: League Team City Stadium Capacity AA (Ind.) Winnipeg Goldeyes: Winnipeg: Blue Cross Park: 7,461 Basketball: League Team City Arena Capacity CEBL: Winnipeg Sea Bears: Winnipeg: Canada Life Centre: 15,321 Canadian football: League Team City Stadium Capacity CFL: Winnipeg Blue Bombers: Winnipeg: Princess Auto ...
The Montreal Expos (Canada's first Major League Baseball team) played in Montreal from 1969 until 2004 when they moved to Washington, D.C. and became the Washington Nationals. The Blue Jays were the first non-American team to host a World Series Game (in 1992) and the only non-American team to win the World Series (back to back in 1992 and 1993).
The history of baseball cards in Canada is somewhat similar to that of baseball cards in the United States. The first cards were trade cards, then cards issued with tobacco products and later candies and gum. World Wide Gum and O-Pee-Chee both produced major sets during the 1930s. In 1952, Topps started distributing its American made cards in ...