September 6th, 2012

City is one step closer to bringing professional baseball back to Ottawa

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May 15th, 2012

The Champions for Ottawa Baseball Exceed Expectations With “AA” Baseball “Deposit of Support” Drive 

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April 19, 2012
Community Leaders join the Champions for Ottawa Baseball to lead the way for youth to experience “AA” Baseball in Ottawa
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March 20, 2012
Organization seeks community’s commitment for season tickets and unveils slate of Honourary Patrons
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Backgrounder:
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February 16, 2012
New community organization forms to support "AA" Baseball in Ottawa
NEW COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION FORMS TO SUPPORT “AA”...
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UN NOUVEL ORGANISME COMMUNAUTAIRE VISANT À APPUYER...
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For Media Inquiries:
David Gourlay
613-883-7416
David@ChampsOttawaBaseball.ca

CTV Morning Live 

Eastern League Agrees To Move Team To Ottawa - 
Baseball America 

Affiliated Baseball may be on its way back to Ottawa after all...read more

Pro Baseball returning to Ottawa (CBC News) 

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Eastern League president Joe McEacharn excited to welcome Ottawa (Sept 6th 2012)

The Eastern League may even be more confident than Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson that Canada’s capital will be a successful home for a pro baseball franchise seven years after the death of the Triple-A Lynx....read more

Pro baseball returning to Ottawa (Sept 6th 2012)

Mayor Jim Watson says the capital will be home to a professional baseball team in 2014. The mayor made the announcement via Twitter Thursday morning..read more

Kusiewicz: Ottawa Double-A team needs off-field success first

The Champions for Ottawa Baseball Board is hoping to draw Lynx-like crowds if and when Ottawa gains a double-A team for next season. Ex-pro LHP Mike Kusiewicz says double-A is a better fit for the capital than triple-A...read more

Baseball fan 'very excited' team's on way

News of Ottawa’s newest pro sports team hits close to home for local baseball pioneer, David Gourlay. It was announced Thursday morning that come 2014, Ottawa will have a professional baseball team. “I’m very excited,” said Gourlay.
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Ottawa Business People To Show Blue Jays The Love

OTTAWA - The momentum to bring the Blue Jays farm affiliate to Ottawa is increasing. Ottawa businessman David Gourlay is putting together a group of prominent locals to drum up community support to bring the Toronto Blue Jays Double-A farm team to Ottawa in 2013...read more

Ottawa's baseball champion "doing things the right way."

OTTAWA - That baseball has found its local champion in businessman David Gourlay might be a sign that lessons have been learned from past baseball failures...read more

New Ottawa group wooing Blue Jays

TORONTO - A new group is working hard to woo the Toronto Blue Jays into making Ottawa home for the team's double-A affiliate. The group includes former mayor Jim Durrell as an honourary patron and 12 “civic, sporting and corporate leaders with a passion for baseball.” ...read more

Finance committee OKs $5.7M for Ottawa Stadium renovations

OTTAWA — Plans to bring Double-A baseball to the city moved along on Thursday, with council’s finance and economic development committee approving a plan that would see the city spend $5.7 million to fix up the Ottawa Stadium...read more

Council approves plan for Double-A baseball

OTTAWA — Council has cleared the way for Double-A baseball at the Ottawa Stadium with approval Wednesday of plans for the city to spend $5.7 million to fix up the facility. Councillors unanimously approved the plans...read more

Ambassadors' to push AA baseball season ticket pledges in Ottawa

OTTAWA - Several high-profile representatives of Ottawa's business community have lent their names to a new effort to get season ticket pledges for a possible AA baseball team...read more

Ticket drive launched to bring minor league baseball to Ottawa

OTTAWA - The magic number to bring a Double AA baseball to Ottawa seems to be 2,500.That is the number of season ticket deposits the Champs Ottawa Baseball advocacy group is looking to collect to show the Toronto Blue Jays...read more

Partnership offers youth future seats at ball game 

OTTAWA - A group looking to bring baseball to the city is hoping their latest initiative will be a home run. Champions of Ottawa Baseball (COB), a community-based group looking to bring AA baseball to the city, announced a partnership... >> read more
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