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Toronto Blue Jays




  • 1977
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  • 1992
  • 1993
  • Blue Jays Opener 1977

    Toronto Blue Jays Team Formation

    The City of Toronto had renovated Exhibition Stadium to accommodate Major League Baseball (MLB), in anticipation of the Giants relocating there, and continued to push for an MLB franchise. MLB awarded the City of Toronto an expansion franchise in 1976, along with Seattle, Washington. A group, headed by Labatt Breweries, with Imperial Trust and CIBC as minority owners, purchased the ...
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  • Sky Dome Opens

    SkyDome Opens

    Rogers Centre, originally known as SkyDome is a multi-purpose stadium in downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada situated next to the CN Tower near the shores of Lake Ontario. Opened in 1989 on the former Railway Lands, it is home to the Toronto Blue Jays of Major League Baseball and the Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League. The stadium was renamed ...
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  • Baseball Games 1992 World Series Toronto vs Atlanta Game 6

    World Series Winner 1992

    The 1992 World Series was the first World Series ever with games played outside the United States, following the 1992 regular season. It pitted the American League champion Toronto Blue Jays against the National League champion Atlanta Braves. Toronto defeated Atlanta, four games to two, marking the first time a team based outside the United States won the World Series.
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  • World Series - 1993 Carter Blue Jays

    World Series Winner 1993

    The 1993 World Series was a best-of-seven playoff series to determine the champion of Major League Baseball for the 1993 season. It pitted the defending champion Toronto Blue Jays of the American League against the National League champion Philadelphia Phillies. With Toronto ahead three games to two in the Series, Joe Carter hit a game-winning three-run home run in the ...
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History of the Blue Jays

The Toronto Blue Jays are a Canadian professional baseball team based in Toronto, Ontario. The Blue Jays compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the American League (AL) East division. The team plays its home games at the Rogers Centre (formerly known as the SkyDome).

They are the second MLB franchise to be based outside the United States, and currently, the only team based outside the U.S. after the first Canadian franchise, the Montreal Expos, became the Washington Nationals in 2005.





Established
1977

City
Toronto

League History
2000 – Present / Major League Baseball
1977 – 1999 / American League

Team History
1977 – Present / Toronto Blue Jays

Nickname
Blue Jays – More than 30,000 entries were received during a five week name the team contest. A panel of 14 judges, including 10 Toronto media members, selected 10 finalists. From that list, the club’s board of directors settled on Blue Jays. “The Blue Jays was felt to be the most appropriate of the final 10 names submitted,” according to a statement issued by the board’s chairman, R. Howard Webster. “The blue jay is a North American bird, bright blue in color, with white under covering and a black neck ring. It is strong, aggressive and inquisitive.

Championship
World Series 2
1993, 1992

Stadium
2006 – Present / Rogers Centre
1989 – 2005 / SkyDome
1977 – 1989 / Exhibition Stadium

Owner
2000 – Present / Rogers Communications
1976 – 2000 / Labatt Brewing Company

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12 / Roberto Alomar
32 / Roy Halladay
42 / Jackie Robinson

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