Youth sports in Canada have a way of following the success of their professional teams.
The past five years have shown this to be true for basketball, with an influx of Canadian talent into the NBA and NCAA levels. This past season’s playoff run by the Toronto Blue Jays has shown the same to be true for baseball.
According to Jonathan Rumley of CBC, youth baseball organizers in Toronto and across Canada are experiencing their biggest surge in registration since the back-to-back World Series championships in the early-90s.
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“Our house league registration used to take months to fill up,” said Andrew Pace, a camps and clinic director with the East York Baseball Association.