Joltin’ with the Jays

Aucklander Scott Campbell, 23, shook hands with Joe DiMaggio in 1995 as a New Zealand representative at the World Children’s Baseball Fair in Japan and this week, 13 years later, Campbell played Dimaggio’s Yankee Stadium, as a member of the Toronto Blue Jays in the Futures Game. An annual component of All-Star Week, the event showcases top minor-league prospects in a game that pits a United States club against a team of players from other nations. Campbell, now a second baseman, was nine when his mother saw a newspaper ad for a children’s baseball program. “No other sport really jumped out at me, so I just decided to give it a go,” he said. He was a natural. In 2006, Toronto made him the first New Zealander ever drafted.


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One Point Closer to Hall of Fame for Lydia Ko

One Point Closer to Hall of Fame for Lydia Ko

New Zealander Lydia Ko has started her new season in style with victory at Florida’s Hilton Grand Vacations Tournament of Champions on the LPGA Tour, Mike Hall reports for the UK…