OTTAWA'S BAT MAN RETIRING

First the Triple-A Lynx, now the Ottawa region is losing another connection to major-league baseball: Sam Holman, maker of the famed Sam Bat, wants to sell his business. He put it on eBay for $3.5 million US -- this is a business started out of a garage, on a bet no less -- but didn't get one bid. But he said that was more of a feeler to let it be known he's looking to sell.

Oh well, there's still Navan's Erik Bédard, doing quite well with the Baltimore Orioles.

(From the New York Times and via Hardball Times.)