PRESS RELEASE – If you thought the fan friendly baseball experience at Seaman Stadium, home of the Okotoks Dawgs Baseball Club, couldn’t get any better, then you will be blown away by the Dawgs latest plans. Continue reading
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Dawgs, Seaman Stadium Getting New Video Board
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Dawgs Welcome 500,000th Fan to Seaman Stadium
PRESS RELEASE – Canada’s #1 summer collegiate club, the Okotoks Dawgs welcomed their 500,000th fan to beautiful Seaman Stadium on Canada Day, July 1st. Continue reading
Filed under Rankings & Attendance
Ballpark Beer Sales to Help with Flood Relief
Baseball fans will have a chance to enjoy an Okotoks Dawgs (Summer Collegiate, Western Major Baseball League) game, a hot dog and a cool one while helping flood victims. Hell or High Water beer will be be sold at Seaman Stadium this summer. A portion of the beer sales will go towards flood relief for those victimized by the 2013 flood. Read more here.
Filed under Community & Giving, Food & Beverage, Human Interest
Okotoks Dawgs Ballpark Plays Starring Role in Upcoming Sci-Fi Blockbuster
Hollywood actors, including Matthew McConaughey and John Lithgow, descended on Okotoks (AB) more than a year ago to film scenes for the new sci-fi flick Interstellar hitting theaters Friday, Nov. 7. Read more here. The “stellar” spring-training-like baseball complex owned and operated by the summer collegiate Okotoks Dawgs (Western Major Baseball League) plays a role in the film. In fact, Tourmaline Field, the youth baseball facility next to Seaman Stadium, makes a starring appearance in trailer #2 below:
Speaking of the Dawgs and their complex, there is a lot Continue reading
Dawgs’ Seaman Stadium Rocks It in the Rockies
Canada’s SportsNet recently ventured to the foothills of the Alberta Rockies to check out Seaman Stadium in Okotoks (AB) and the summer collegiate Okotoks Dawgs (Western Major Baseball League), and they discovered that Seaman Stadium has become an amazing community gathering place. Read more and watch video report here.
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Dawgs Donor Honoured with ‘Don Seaman Way’
PRESS RELEASE – The Okotoks Dawgs Baseball Club is proud to announce that in recognition of his extraordinary donations to the state of the art facilities now known as the Seaman Stadium Complex, the Town of Okotoks has renamed a portion of Stockton Avenue, the street adjacent to Seaman Stadium, as “Don Seaman Way”. Continue reading
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Dawgs Shatter Attendance Record, Raise $44k for Flood Relief on Canada Day
PRESS RELEASE – In circumstances when the communities needed it most, the Okotoks Dawgs Baseball Club of the Western Major Baseball League, delivered a home run. With horrific floods over the past week causing a regional state of emergency in the greater Calgary area and devastating the nearby town of High River, the Dawgs welcomed a record shattering crowd of 4,445 fans to Continue reading
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Good Things Goin’ On with Dawgs
The summer collegiate Okotoks Dawgs (Western Major Baseball League) are averaging 2,334 fans per game this season ahead of last years high-water mark of 2,202. Beyond the success at the gate, Okotoks (AB) was recently awarded the 2016 World Children’s Baseball Fair, and John Ircandia, managing director of the Dawgs, was named Honorary Chairman of the Continue reading
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Dawgs Hire New Operations Manager
PRESS RELEASE – Okotoks Dawgs of the Western Major Baseball League, announce the recent hiring of Angela Cox as Operations Manager. Angie replaces Jim Amy, who will now focus on Food & Beverage. Angie comes to the Dawgs from the University of Kentucky (Wesleyan) where she served as a recruiting administrator, and most recently from Home Run Sports where she served as a Continue reading
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Semi-Finals Begin in Canada’s Favourite Ballpark Contest
We are now down to four ballparks in Canada’s Favourite Ballpark Contest. This week, Seaman Stadium, home of the summer collegiate Okotoks Dawgs (Western Major Baseball League), takes on Port Arthur Stadium, home of the summer collegiate Thunder Bay Border Cats (Northwoods League). Read more, see photos, and vote here. Next week, LaBatt Park in London (ON) will battle Stade Continue reading
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Seaman Stadium Advances
Seaman Stadium, home of the summer collegiate Okotoks Dawgs (Western Major Baseball League), took down the competition with 48% of the vote to advance to the semi-finals in the Canada’s Favourite Ballpark contest. Read more here.
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Battle of the Ballparks in Canada
Historic LaBatt Memorial Park in London (ON) is one of 16 chosen ballparks in “Canada’s Favourite Ballpark” contest sponsored by Baseball Canada. Week 1 voting began on Monday. Read more here. Port Arthur Stadium in Thunder Bay (ON), home of the summer collegiate Thunder Bay Border Cats (Northwoods League) and Seaman Stadium in Okotoks (AB), home of the summer collegiate Continue reading
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Dawgs Given Go Ahead on ‘Tourmaline Field’
PRESS RELEASE – The Okotoks Dawgs Baseball Club is pleased to announce the decision of Okotoks’ Town Council approving the construction of an all-new baseball diamond adjacent to Seaman Stadium, to be known as “Tourmaline Field”. Tourmaline Field is named after the Dawgs’ principal donor in connection with this project and will feature a full sized midget diamond with dimensions of 300 feet down the Continue reading