Corey Koskie was born in Anola, Manitoba on June 28, 1973. Koskie began his baseball career with the Elmwood Giants in 1989. In 1991 he was a member of the Manitoba Youth team. The next year, Koskie was a provincial champion with the junior Elmwood Giants team. During this year, he was Batting Champion and Rookie of the Year. After this season, he earned a baseball scholarship to Boone College, Iowa. Koskie was a member of the 1992 Canada Summer Games team, and that year he also attended the National Baseball Institute in Surrey, British Columbia. He was drafted and signed by the Minnesota Twins in 1994, and assigned to Elizabethan in the Gulf Coast League. Koskie began his Major League career in 1998 with the Twins, playing third base. He was a member of the Toronto Blue Jays in 2005, and the Milwaukee Brewers in 2006. Koskie played nine total Major League seasons, totaling 989 games, 3399 at-bats, and a lifetime batting average of .275. In 2001 with the Minnesota Twins, he hit 26 home runs, had 103 runs batted in (RBI), and stole 27 bases. He was the 1999 and 2001 Male Athlete of the Year named by the Manitoba Sportscasters Association. Koskie was also a member of the 2009 Canadian World Baseball Classic team.
