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1926

EVENTS
· Vancouver Asahi win the Terminal League Playoffs
· Vancouver Asahi named City’s most popular baseball team
· Athletic Park is damaged by Fire
· Babe Ruth visits Vancouver’s Pantages theatre on a nationwide promotional tour

1931

EVENTS
· Athletic Park hosts the first Night baseball game in Canada on July 3rd, 1931

1934

EVENTS
· the ‘American League All-Stars’ including Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig play in Vancouver en route to Japan.
·Future Vancouver manager Lefty O’doul of the NY Giants is also amongst the group. O’doul would later be inducted into the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame for his contributions to the sport in that country on this and subsequent trips.

1935

EVENTS
· The DaiNippon Tokyo Baseball (later renamed Tokyo Giants) visit Vancouver and play exhibition game against Asahi

1945

EVENTS
· fire once again guts Athletic park causing $50,000 worth of damage

2013

VANCOUVER CANADIANS

Northwest League
affiliation – Toronto Blue Jays (AL)

MANAGER
· Clayton McCullough

NOTABLE PLAYERS
· Justin Atkinson

EVENTS
·Toronto Blue Jays select Ladner’s Tom Robson – Baseball Reference in the 4th round, who later helps the C’s win their third straight championship
· the Toronto Blue Jays select Justin Atkinson of Surrey in the 26th round of the MLB amateur draft
· the Canadians win the Northwest League Championship for the third year in a row
· Vancouver Canadians set a Northwest League Attendence record selling 184,042 seats in the season