{"id":688291,"date":"2025-04-14T08:56:38","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T12:56:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/veq.ca\/event\/book-baseball-talk-with-miles-wolff\/"},"modified":"2025-04-14T08:56:38","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T12:56:38","slug":"book-baseball-talk-with-miles-wolff","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/veq.ca\/fr\/event\/book-baseball-talk-with-miles-wolff\/","title":{"rendered":"Book &amp; Baseball Talk with Miles Wolff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.morrin.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Wolff-book-500px-200x300.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Come hear Miles Wolff, the founding father of Quebec Capitales, present his book\u00a0<em>There\u2019s a Bulldozer on Home Plate: A 50-Year Journey in Minor League Baseball<\/em>\u00a0in which he recounts how his experiences lead to the founding of modern independent baseball.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Miles Wolff<\/strong><br \/>\nDuring his 50-year career, Miles Wolff blazed the trail for hundreds of professional baseball teams across North America. Wolff is considered the \u201cGodfather of Independent Baseball\u201d after resurrecting the Northern League as a non-affiliated circuit in 1993. In addition to serving as Commissioner of the American Association from 2006 to 2019, he also served in that role for the Northern League (1993-2002), the Central League (2002-2005), the Northeast League (2003-2004) and the Can-Am League (2005-2018). Wolff is also the former owner of the Durham Bulls, the Quebec Capitales, the Burlington Royals, and ten other minor league, independent, and summer collegiate teams. He is the former publisher and owner of\u00a0<em>Baseball America<\/em>, and\u00a0<em>Total Baseball<\/em>, the official encyclopedia of Major League Baseball, named him among the top 100 individuals in the history of baseball.<\/p>\n<p>Moderator: Hoffman Wolff<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.ca\/e\/theres-a-bulldozer-on-home-plate-book-and-baseball-talk-with-miles-wolff-tickets-941569358297\">Register here!<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Come hear Miles Wolff, the founding father of Quebec Capitales, present his book\u00a0There\u2019s a Bulldozer on Home Plate: A 50-Year Journey in Minor League Baseball\u00a0in which he recounts how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","_tribe_events_is_hybrid":"","_tribe_events_is_virtual":"","_tribe_events_virtual_video_source":"","_tribe_events_virtual_embed_video":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button_text":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_at":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_to":[],"_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_event":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_views":"","_tribe_events_virtual_url":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[],"class_list":["post-688291","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Book &amp; 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