A press conference has reportedly been scheduled for Friday, Sept. 7, to announce that the indy pro Can-Am League is expanding to Trois Rivieres (QC). The “Eagles” will apparently begin play at Stade Fernand-Bédard (formerly known as Stade Municipal) next season. Read more here and here. Use the free translation tool here, if you (like us) don’t know French. Thanks to John Cerone for the story links.
Using the same logo as the Elite Junior Baseball Eagles?
This was a great franchise during the 1970′s with the Eastern League. Trois Rivieres has a great fan base, and combined with Quebec City, will be very successful.
I hope it works out. Hopefully the Capitales organize some bus trips for fans so we can go see Caps games there.
It has been a long time coming-baseball is back in Trois Rivieres and hopefully it will be a success. I am just worried about the Can-Am League.
According to one of the articles, there are five or six members of the ownership group, including hockey player Marc-André Bergeron from the NHL’s Tampa Bay Lightening, former baseball player Emmanuel Turcotte, Can-Am League Commissioner Miles Wolff, and former MLB pitcher Éric Gagné.
Alan