Baseball Canada and Tim Leiper

Tim Leiper: Thanks to a past stint in Ottawa with the minor-league Lynx, Leiper pronounced Leeper is a valued member of Baseball Canada. And the appreciation goes both ways. , according to Hamilton Spectator. It started after Leiper became hitting coach of the triple-A Ottawa Lynx of the International League in 1999, eventually moving up to manager. There he became friends with Hamilton and, one day in 2003, he asked the Baseball Canada man if he ever needed help with the program. Fla. - Blue Jays first base coach Tim Leiper calls Arizona home these days but should qualify for honorary Canadian citizenship given his ties north of the border. "This is the absolute best thing I've ever done," said Leiper. "They are the greatest people. Head coach and director of national teams Greg Hamilton, president Ray Carter, director general Jim Baba. The guys that run the program, they're the nicest people in the world. And we've kind of like become family." (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.