Ottawa Champions
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| League | Can-Am League | ||||
| Location | Ottawa, Ontario | ||||
| Ballpark | Raymond Chabot Grant Thornton Park | ||||
| Year founded | 2014 | ||||
| Nickname(s) | Champions, Champs | ||||
| League championships | 1: 2016 | ||||
| Division championships | 0 | ||||
| Colours |
Blue, red, white |
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| Mascot | Champ | ||||
| Manager | Hal Lanier | ||||
| Media | Ottawa Citizen, Le Droit, CKDJ-FM | ||||
| Website | www.ottawachampions.ca | ||||
Blue, red, white
The Ottawa Champions Baseball Club (French: Les Champions d'Ottawa) is a professional baseball team based in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. The Champions made their debut as a member of the Canadian American Association of Professional Baseball (Can-Am League) in 2015.
They won their first league championship in 2016 defeating the Rockland Boulders 3-2 after being down 2-0 in the series, winning game 5, 3-1 with a complete game win by Austin Chrismon. They play their home games at Raymond Chabot Grant Thornton Park. The Champions mascot is Champ.
The City of Ottawa granted a 10-year lease of the Ottawa Baseball Stadium to establish a Can-Am Baseball League team for the 2015 season in September 2013.
In June 2014, the Ottawa Champions team name was announced followed by the unveiling of the team logo that August.
The Champions announced the signing of Hal Lanier as the team’s first on-field manager on 18 November 2014. Lanier is a former Major League Baseball player who began his MLB career in 1964 as a member of the San Francisco Giants; he also spent time as a New York Yankee at the end of his playing career. He worked as a coach for the St. Louis Cardinals and won a World Series with them in 1982. He was the manager of the Houston Astros from 1986-1988 and was named the NL Manager of the Year in 1986. He has managed numerous independent league teams before including the Winnipeg Goldeyes and Can-Am team the Sussex Skyhawks. Along with Lanier, the Champions also announced the signing of their first player, Gatineau native OF Sebastien Boucher. Boucher was drafted 213th in the 2004 MLB Draft and was selected to play for Canada in the World Baseball Classic in 2006. The team's founding president is David Gourlay.
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