05/18/2017
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/fans-say-goodbye-to-canada-s-last-triple-a-baseball-team-1.646495
"But Gordon Hendren, president of Charlton Strategic Research Inc., a Toronto-based firm that studies the business of sport, said Canadian participation in baseball fell 45 per cent in the nine years leading up to 2004-05.
Meanwhile participation in soccer jumped 19 per cent, and that has changed politicians' decisions about which sport to support.
"You're going to be thinking more about soccer than you're going to be thinking about baseball," Hendren said, adding that U.S. cities have been more aggressive in developing baseball clubs than Canadian ones."
It's almost like the MLB neglecting/ downright ignoring the sport in Canada hurt it's chances of baseball being successful up north.
Hopefully with the Jays revival we can see pro baseball back up north even if it just means a new Canadian minor league could form. Canadian baseball exists outside of just Ottawa, Montreal and Toronto eh!
More than 7,000 people turned out Monday to watch the Ottawa Lynx play what was likely the team's final nine innings before it is expected to move to the U.S.
