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If there's an oasis of calm at Christie Pits, among the kids tearing by on their bikes or laughing at the splash park, it's the back-to-back baseball games taking place in the northeast corner of the park. In Intercounty Baseball League action—essentially an independent version of single 'A' ball—the Guelph Royals are taking on the defending league champions, the Toronto Maple Leafs. The Maple Leafs, now in their 40th season since Jack and Lynne Dominico started the team in 1969, have won 20 pennants and 8 championships. There's usually an easy joke that at least there's one successful Maple Leafs franchise, but currently the ball team is sitting in sixth place with a losing record. Still, a Leafs game is an appealing alternative to the Blue Jays for being so unlike a trip to the Rogers Centre.