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Wilson Neto has been here before.

Paul Quantrill and Brian McRae could be enjoying their retirement years at home, the game of baseball fading from their memories into the mists of time.

Canada’s offense was on a roll Tuesday night.

Marc Staal isn’t saying much about his contract dispute with the New York Rangers. The 23-year-old defenceman is a restricted free agent and looking for a raise, something the salary-cap strapped Rangers might not be able to afford.

If anyone doubted the American’s chances at the World Junior Baseball Championship, they can put those fears aside. The undefeated U.S. (3-0) took a Chinese Taipei team that was averaging .

It took them eight innings, but the real South Korean team finally showed up Monday afternoon.

All-star Cody Asche didn’t get the ball out of the infield, but a ninth-inning grounder was ample enough wood on the ball to score the game-winning run for the Huskies on Sunday, who edged the Thunder Bay Border Cats 4-3.

International Baseball Federation president Riccardo Fraccari says he’s not happy with how things transpired getting Venezuela to Thunder Bay and promised the sport’s governing body will get to the bottom of it once the World Junior Baseball Champion

Stealing bases with large leads is frowned upon in polite baseball society. But this is the World Junior Baseball Championhip, and U.S. manager Garye Lafevers and his first base coach Brian McRae aren’t fooling around.

The Canadian national junior baseball team has come of age.