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Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame
The Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum is located St. Marys, Ontario, Canada. Founded in October 1983, it is dedicated to preserving Canada's baseball heritage whose origins date back to 1838 when a game closely resembling today's baseball was played in Beachville, Ontario .
Since opening, fifty-eight members (34 players, 23 builders, 2 honorary, 4 honorary teams) have been inducted into the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame. It includes professional ballplayers, amateurs, builders, and honorary members who have helped popularize the sport in Canada.
In addition, the Canadiana Baseball Hall of Fame also gives out the Tip O'Neill Award annually to the baseball player "judged to have excelled in individual achievement and team contribution while adhering to the highest ideals of the game of baseball."
Players Inducted:
- Jimmy Archer
- Richard Belec
- Reno Bertoia
- Edward Bowsfield
- Thomas Burgess
- Gary Carter
- Joe Carter
- Justin Clarke
- Reginald Cleveland
- Frank Colman
- Russell Ford
- Richard Fowler
- George Gibson
- Jack Graney
- John Heath
- John Hiller
- Arthur Irwin
- Ferguson Jenkins
- Thomas Judd
- Phillip Marchildon
- Kirk McCaskill
- Dave McKay
- Glen Nelson
- James O'Neill
- James O'Rourke
- William Phillips
- Ronald Piche
- Robert Prentice
- Terry Puhl
- Jean Raymond
- Goodwin Rosen
- George Selkirk
- Dave Stieb
- Ronald Taylor
- Peter Ward
- Vancouver Asahi (entire team)
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