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During 75 seasons of baseball (1946-2020), 71 teams in 21 minor leagues represented 35 Canadian cities, playing either under the aegis of the National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues (called Minor League Baseball since 1999) or independently. Sixteen teams operated for less than a year, including the eight teams of the Canadian Baseball League of 2003. Another 14 lasted three seasons or less. Seven have played continuously for 20 years or more, among them the Winnipeg Goldeyes of the independent Northern League and American Association, with 27 consecutive seasons since 1994. Chronicling their year-by-year fortunes, this history includes accounts of individual award winners, former Negro League players and future Hall-of-Famers, and traces of the rise and fall of independent league teams and the exodus of Canadian teams to the U.S.
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Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Preface
Introduction
Part I. 1946-1951: The Minors Expand and Contract in Canada
1.¿From Jackie Robinson to Jack Kent Cooke: The International League
2.¿Canada's Border Leagues Teams: PONY League, Border League, Western International League, Canadian-American League
3. Mexican Jumping Beans, Hockey Players, and Negro Leaguers: Quebec's Provincial League
Part II. 1952-1977: The Lean Years
4.¿International League Departures
5.¿Vancouver's Pacific Coast League Mounties Come and Go ... and Come and Go
6.¿Canada's Border League Teams Go South: Western International League, Provincial League, PONY League, Northern League
7.¿Struggling to Survive in the '70s: Northern League, International League, Eastern League, Northwest League, Pioneer League
Part III. 1978-2020: Boom and Bust II-Independence and Survival
8.¿Another Minor League Boom in Canada, 1978-1990: Pacific Coast League, Northwest League, Pioneer League, New York-Pennsylvania League, Eastern League
9.¿Canada's Minor League Teams Go South Again, 1991-2007: New York-Pennsylvania League, Eastern League, International League, Pioneer League, Pacific Coast League
10.¿On Their Own: Canadian Teams in the Independent Leagues
11.¿Thriving in the Twenty-First Century: Vancouver Canadians, les Capitales de Quebec, Winnipeg Goldeyes
Conclusion
Appendix. Directory of Canadian Minor League and Independent League Teams by Year: 1946-2020
Bibliographical Essay
Index
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Jon C. Stott, a professor emeritus at the University of Alberta, has previously published works on independent baseball and the beer industry. He lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
