WELCOME TO BWI SENIOR BASEBALL 2010!

 

Latest Scores

Game # Date Park Visitors Score Home Score Comments
307 16-May Terra Cotta Step Ladders 14 Spos 7  
112 16-May Ballantyne Indians 13 Knights 7  
109 16-May Terra Cotta Reds 9 Patriotes 13  
208 17-May Terra Cotta Yanks 15 Pirates 11  
209 18-May Trudeau Pirates 16 Athletics 9  
210 19-May Terra Cotta Expos 2 Yanks 6  
110 20-May Trudeau Steamers 10 Indians 1  
111 21-May Terra Cotta Knights 3 Cards 2  
308 22-May Terra Cotta Spos 1 Braves 11  
211 22-May St-Laurent Athletics 9 Homers 2  
212 22-May Terra Cotta Expos 6 Pirates 8  
309 22-May St-Laurent Babouins 14 Step Ladders 16  
186 22-May Terra Cotta Steamers 2 Jacks 4  
113 23-May Ballantyne Cards 10 Reds 11  
213 23-May Ballantyne Yanks 12 Beers 5  
114 23-May Dorion Gardens Patriotes 0 Dbacks 6  
103 23-May Ballantyne Knights 6 Jacks 8  
311 23-May Terra Cotta Dodgers 8 Braves 5  
312 24-May Terra Cotta Step Ladders   Cougars   Suspended
214 25-May Trudeau Angels 6 Homers 14  
313 26-May Terra Cotta Dodgers 8 Cougars 1  

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Looking for Vintage Players 35 and Over
Our 35 and over Classique team is looking for players this season.

If you are 35 and over, interested in playing tournaments throughout the summer in various eastern Ontario cities. We play in 2-3 tournaments per season, including our own annual Mid-summer Senior Showdown.

Vintage rules are not much different then what you play in the BWI-SL. Each game is 6 innings or 2 hours in length. Pitchers can pitch a maximum of six consecutive outs or 2 innings. All players bat and there is no physical contact permitted. A typical tournament guarantees a minimum 3 games over the weekend. At about $20 per tournament per player, it is a great deal for any player!

This is a great way of enjoying baseball during the warm summer days with your family and meeting new people from various teams around the Canadian Oldtimers Baseball federation. Typically there are 10 -12 teams that make up the federation of 35 and over. Our team from two seasons ago placed 6th in the Canadian Tier 2 championship. We want to build on that and get more players to come out from our League.

If you are interested in playing, please send an e-mail to grandpoobah@bwiseniorleague.com and title it BWI-SL  Vintage.

GPB
 
This year you can get all RAIN OUT updates via TWITTER:  http://twitter.com/BWI_Rain_Outs

To use this service you must first join Twitter. It is simple and free to join.  You can also get your tweets delivered directly to your cell phone by sending a message to your Twitter code with the command 'FOLLOW BWI_Rain_Outs'.  


REGISTRATION AND TEAM ROSTER FORMS.
TEAM ROSTER FORMS:   Click here for excel version.        Click here for html version.
 
PLAYER FORMS:   Click here for word version.        Click here for the pdf version.
 
 
Click here to listen to the interview on CBC featuring the President of BWI Michael Beaton, and the obviously unsympathetic Mayor of Pointe Claire, Bill McMurchie.   

CITY'S LAST BASEBALL DIAMOND TO BECOME A SOCCER PITCH

Karen Seidman
The Gazette
Monday, March 15, 2010 

As spring arrives and thoughts turn to outdoor sports, the Baseball West Island Senior League has discovered that the main baseball diamond it uses in Pointe Claire’s Terra Cotta Park is about to become a soccer pitch.

Representatives of the league are crying foul and say it’s unfair that such a decision was made with absolutely no consultation of any baseball organizations. “I feel badly let down by the city on this one,” said Michael Beaton, a Pointe Claire resident and head of the West Island league. “There should have been some kind of consultation.”  Robert Bell, who is on the executive of the league, said that Terra Cotta is the league’s flagship field and handing it over to the soccer league is tantamount to killing off the sport of baseball. “This baseball diamond is the only one in the entire city of Pointe Claire that meets the requirements of Midget, Junior and Senior league players,” he said in a letter to Pointe Claire Mayor Bill McMurchie. “Please, Mr. Mayor, do not be a part of dismantling the great sport that is baseball.”

McMurchie said this week that while council made the decision knowing it was the last baseball field of its kind, he has received a couple of letters about it and has asked the director general to look into the matter. “I think we might require further information,” said McMurchie, who expects to have that report in about a week.  Bell said it irks him to no end that there are already 17 soccer pitches in Pointe Claire, but only one real baseball diamond, and soccer organizers still want more. “The soccer pitches are not always  in use, but the baseball diamond is always booked,” said Bell. “People from all over the West Island use it.” He said that council may not have been aware that baseball cannot be played on a softball field. The dimensions are different and do not meet the standards for a baseball diamond which can accommodate players over the age of 16. 

Beaton said that while the number of baseball players can’t compete with soccer - he said there are about 600 baseball players in the league compared with about 3,000 soccer players in Pointe Claire - the sport has seen a real surge in popularity recently and he noted that baseball for adults is the fastest-growing segment in North America. “This decision just seems rather short-sighted of the city,” he said. “The future is very bleak for baseball. It seems we were advised about this so we could make other arrangements.” Like learning to play soccer?

http://westislandgazette.com/news/13643

The members of BWI urge everyone to send your concerns to Bill McMurchie at City Hall with a loud and clear message.

mcmurchie@ville.pointe-claire.qc.ca

or by mail to: 

Bill McMurchie
Mayor
City of Pointe Claire
451 St Jean, Pointe-Claire, Québec
H9R 3JE