BLE Blast from the Past Baseball Hall of Fame player Tom Burgess Youth attending Oliver’s baseball camp crowded around Baseball Hall of Fame player Tom Burgess last week after practice, requesting his autograph and, in animated voices, asking, “You didn’t wear helmets back then?” Burgess, who started his career in 1954 as a right fielder […]

Baseball Camp Big league Experience : A BLE Blast from the past A baseball camp started by a man with a penchant for the game had its humble beginnings in Oliver but is now known throughout the world. Don Coy, known as “Mr. Baseball” born on Oct. 20, 1922 in Penticton started the Okanagan Major […]

BLE Blast from the Past Baseball Camp For more than a quarter century, the Okanagan Major League Baseball Camp here in Oliver has been teaching young men to play baseball the professional way and to have some fun while they’re doing it. By the time the last 1986 session ends in mid-August, some 200 to […]

A Big League Experience Blast from the Past Here we are at the seventh inning stretch of our venerable baseball camp. It’s time to stand up and look around at what goes on down at the community centre every summer. The creation of a far-sighted resident Don Coy over 42 years ago, the Big League […]

A BLE Blast From the Past by Gary Montague, Kelowna Daily Courier, Wednesday, August 16, 1978 Now in its 19th year of operation, the Okanagan Major League Baseball Camp for boys 14 to 19 years of age has gained the reputation of being perhaps the finest in Canada, and one of the top-notch schools of […]

Baseball may be the Americans” national pastime but they are discovering that Canada’s national sport of hockey is building big league ball players. Brandon Newell, scout for the Milwaukee Brewers said, “When I look at the Canadian players, some of those kids who have played hockey growing up have a great mentality for baseball. They […]

Big League Experience ~ A blast from the Past Baseball Camp Oliver, B.C., is a long way from either of the major-league baseball parks where this year’s World Series is being played, but for more than 300 youngsters each summer, it represents a possible first step in that direction. The reason is the Okanagan Major […]

The new owners of the Okanagan Baseball Camp are determined to return Oliver-based camp to its glory days. The camp was operated for decades by Oliver baseball enthusiasts Don Coy and Dale Parker. The camp earned a solid reputation for providing the best instruction available and ensured that hundreds of families traveled to Oliver each […]