Or subtitle: There Is Really No Jay News.
In the World Baseball Classic comments there was a side discussion about what province produces the most baseball players. So a few minutes and the help of Baseball-Reference.com, here are the numbers:
Update: I messed up the numbers, counted the pitchers twice. There have been 215 Canadain born major leagues. Two whose place of birth was unknown beyond 'Canada'. These numbers are, hopefull, right
Ontario 115
BC 27
Quebec 25
New Brunswick 15
Nova Scotia 9
Saskatchewan 7
Alberta 8
Manitoba 4
PEI 2
Newfoundland 1
This is all time numbers. Hmmmm I suppose it would be more interesting with the relative populations of the provinces. Well go look it up yourself. Ok, ok.....in 2008 there were 33 million of us Canucks. Population of Provinces in Thousands:
Ontario 12,929
Quebec 7,750
BC 4,381
Alberta 3,585
Manitoba 1,208
Saskatchewan 1,016
Nova Scotia 938
Newfoundland 507
Prince Edward Island 139
So I guess the question is why so few from Alberta? I guess all our kids become engineers, how sad (kidding, kidding, I am proud of my boy). New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Saskatchewan all seem to do well.
Anyway, that's how I wasted an hour today.