Dawgs Press Release for 2022 WCBL All-star Game

MEDIA ADVISORY

March 2, 2022
Okotoks, AB- Matt Stairs feature guest at WCBL All-Star Game

The Okotoks Dawgs are pleased to announce that former Major League standout, Matt Stairs will attend as feature celebrity guest highlighting the 2022 All-Star Game of the Western Canadian Baseball League. The Dawgs will host the showcase event which will pit the best players of the WCBL’s Eastern Division against the stars of the West on Saturday, July 23rd at beautiful Seaman Stadium in Okotoks.

Stairs hails from Fredericton, New Brunswick and enjoyed several MLB seasons notably with the Montreal Expos, Toronto Blue Jays and the Philadelphia Phillies, with whom he won a World Series in 2008. His pinch-hit home run in the 8th inning of Game 4 in the 2008 National League Championship Series off Los Angeles Dodgers reliever Jonathan Broxton was called “one of the

most memorable home runs in Phillies history”. An accomplished Major League “slugger”, Stairs continues to hold the MLB record for pinch-hit home runs with 23. He was the second Canadian-born player ever to hit more than 35 home runs in a season, and only the second to hit more than 25 home runs and drive in more than 100 runs in back-to-back seasons. He ranks either 1st or 2nd in power hitting categories for Canadian major leaguers with 265 career home runs and 899 RBIs. On February 4, 2015, Stairs was elected to the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame.

The WCBL has been in continuous operation for over 80 years and features historic rivalries throughout all the major centers in Alberta and Saskatchewan. It is Canada’s premier summer collegiate baseball league showcasing outstanding Canadian and American college stars from universities and colleges across the United States and Canada. As such, the WCBL’s All-Star Game promises to be a Canadian baseball celebration including fireworks displays, musical entertainment, appearances and autograph sessions by various baseball celebrities and MLB scouts, BBQs and a home run derby. The Dawgs are 2019 WCBL Champions and are the league’s marquis franchise with average attendance of 4,000 fans per game. Ballpark Biz has ranked the Dawgs 3rd in North America among summer collegiate franchises in attendance.

Tickets for the WCBL’s All-Star Game are on sale NOW
Online at www.dawgsbaseball.ca or by calling the Dawgs Ticket Office at 403.262.3294.