The Langley Blaze — along with CPBL Stars, Oshawa Legionaires and Okotoks Dawgs — are headed south again this spring. They will play eight games at major-league facilities against first and second-year pros, including the annual Wayne Norton Memorial game against Seattle Mariners farmhands. Norton (Port Moody, BC) scouted for the Mariners and was elected to the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame in St. Marys in 2016.

Alan Waffle, the founder of the Royal York Baseball League, passed away on February 19 at the age of 78.

“You know what they say: “There’s no crying in baseball.”

But when has that ever been true?

Baseball (and life) is full of passion, yelling, cheering, screaming, sliding and yes ... even crying.

So how do you manage (and avoid) all the tears and drama? And more specifically, what kind of drama are we avoiding?”