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Toronto Blue Jays TORONTO BLUE JAYS by Joanne C. Gerstner An Imprint of Abdo Publishing www.abdopublishing.com www.abdopublishing.com Published by Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO, PO Box 398166, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55439. Copyright © 2015 by Abdo Consulting Group, Inc. International copyrights reserved in all countries. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without written permission from the publisher. SportsZone™ is a trademark and logo of Abdo Publishing. Printed in the United States of America, North Mankato, Minnesota 052014 092014 Editor: Chrös McDougall Copy Editor: Nicholas Cafarelli Interior Design and Production: Kazuko Collins Cover Design: Kazuko Collins Photo Credits: Chris Bernacchi/AP Images, cover; Hans Deryk/AP Images, title; Ed Reinke/AP Images, 4, 29, 33, 43 (top and middle); Rusty Kennedy/AP Images, 7; Mark Duncan/AP Images, 9, 37; Gray Mortimore/Getty Images, 10; Diamond Images/Getty Images, 12, 42 (top); Mitchell Layton/Getty Images, 15; John Swart/AP Images, 16, 24; Eric Risberg/AP Images, 19, 42 (bottom); Lou Requena/AP Images, 20; Scott Macdonald/AP Images, 23, 42 (middle), 47; Doug Mills/AP Images, 27; Ron Frehm/AP Images, 31; John Dunn/AP Images, 34; Tom Uhlman/AP Images, 39; JP Moczulski, The Canadian Press/ AP Images, 41; Chris O’Meara/AP Images, 43 (bottom); Winslow Townson/AP Images, 44 Library of Congress Control Number: 2014933086 Cataloging-in-Publication Data Gerstner, Joanne, 1971- Toronto Blue Jays / by Joanne Gerstner. p. cm. — (Inside MLB) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-1-62403-488-6 1. Toronto Blue Jays (Baseball team)—Juvenile literature. I. Title. GV875.T67G47 2015 796.357’6409713—dc23 2014933086 TABLE OF CONTENTS Chapter 1 .............Living a Dream, 4 Chapter 2 .............Baseball Comes to Toronto, 10 Chapter 3 .............Learning to Win, 16 Chapter 4 .............Success at Last, 24 Chapter 5 .............Rebuilding to Get Back, 34 Timeline, 42 Quick Stats, 44 Quotes and Anecdotes, 45 Glossary, 46 For More Information, 47 Index, 48 About the Author, 48 CHAPTER 1 LIVING A DREAM S omething this special usually only happens in baseball movies or dreams. Or maybe this was something Toronto Blue Jays slugger Joe Carter imagined when he was a kid playing baseball with his friends. Everybody wants to be the hero of the World Series. Carter made the dream happen in 1993. The 1993 Blue Jays were the Blue Jays—and the sport of in the midst of a tremendous baseball—were becoming just run. One year earlier they had as popular. beaten the Atlanta Braves The Blue Jays came back to become the first Canadian even stronger in 1993. During team to win the World Series. the off-season, they added vet- The people of Toronto have long eran pitcher Dave Stewart and loved their professional hockey future Hall of Famers desig- team, the Maple Leafs. But nated hitter Paul Molitor and after the 1992 World Series, outfielder Rickey Henderson. The Blue JaysJays broughtbrought in veteran designateddesignated hitter Paul Molitor forfor the 1993 season. He became the 19931993 World Series Most Valuable Player.Player. LIVING A DREAM 5 Seven Blue Jays players were lead. All they had to do was win selected to the 1993 All-Star Game 6 and they would defend Game. Those players ultimately their title. Things looked good led Toronto to a 95–67 season for the Jays until the seventh and another American League inning. The Blue Jays had a (AL) East Division title. 5–1 lead going into the inning. The fall in Canada is usu- They came out of it losing 6–5. ally spent gearing up for the The Phillies held onto that upcoming hockey season. But lead going into the bottom of the baseball fever hit Toronto as ninth. If the Blue Jays wanted the Blue Jays went back to to come back, they would have the postseason. After beating to beat the Phillies’ best relief the Chicago White Sox 4–2 in pitcher, Mitch Williams. The the AL Championship Series man nicknamed “Wild Thing” (ALCS), the Blue Jays returned had a wild delivery and a near- to the World Series. The oppos- 100-mile-per-hour fastball. The ing Philadelphia Phillies had fans at SkyDome in Toronto finished last in the National worried that their team might League (NL) East in 1992. But have to wait until Game 7 to they surged to the top in 1993 win their second World Series. and then defeated the Braves to Then Henderson led off the reach the Series. inning with a walk. After Devon After five World Series White flied out, Molitor singled games, the Blue Jays had a 3–2 to center. Now it was Carter’s Joe Carter watches as his hit sails over the outfield fence for the game- winning home run in the 1993 World Series. 6 TORONTO BLUE JAYS LIVING A DREAM 7 turn to bat. With two men on in honestly thinking that.” The the bottom of the ninth, Carter Blue Jays crowd screamed. had a chance to make the World They had just won back-to-back Series-winning hit. World Series. Carter worked the count to When Carter reached home two balls and two strikes. Then plate, his Blue Jays teammates Williams threw a low fastball. lifted him up in a wild celebra- The All-Star outfielder ripped tion. Then they carried him off a three-run homer to left field. the field on their shoulders. He jumped and skipped as he Williams walked slowly back to ran around the bases. “I wish the Phillies dugout and joined I had learned how to do cart- his shocked teammates in sit- wheels,” Carter said. “I was ting on their bench. It was only the second Joe Carter time in baseball history that JJoeoe Carter played forfor the Blue JaysJays the World Series was won on a ffromrom 1991 to 1997. The outoutfielderfielder was a five-time All-Star who was bottom-of-the-ninth home run. bbestest known forfor his hitting. He hadhad The Blue Jays had repeated as 1,051 hits, 203 home runs, and 736 World Series champions, and rrunsuns batted in during his years with tthehe Blue Jays. But his most famofamous Carter was the hero. It wasn’t hit was the game-winning home a dream or a movie. This was a run toto winwin thethe 19931993 WorldWorld Series.Series. Many people consider that one ooff very real moment, and it helped thethe most exciting endings to a WorldWorld make baseball as big as hockey Series.Series. in Toronto. Blue Jays outfielder Joe Carter celebrates as he rounds third base after his home run sealed the team’s second straight World Series title in 1993. 8 TORONTO BLUE JAYS LIVING A DREAM 9 CHAPTER 2 BASEBALL COMES TO TORONTO M ajor League Baseball (MLB) was growing in the mid-1970s, and the AL was looking for cities to place a new team. The idea of having an MLB team was also brewing in Toronto, a large city on the shores of Lake Ontario in Canada. There was already one A Mascot MLB team in Canada. The Expos began play in nearby TheThe Blue Jays'Jays' first mascot,mascot, "B. J. BirdieBirdie,"" debuted in 1979. B. J. mademade Montreal in 1969. So why not historyhistory in 1993 when he becambecamee add another team in Canada? tthehe firstfirst mascot to be ejectedejected fromfrom a ggame. Umppire Jim McKean feltfelt B. J. The AL agreed. The league mmadeade funfun ooff the umpiresumpires too much. voted to add Toronto to its East The Blue Jays ended B. J.'s' careerr inin 1999,1999, when the team introducedintroduced Division in March 1976. "A"Ace " and "Diamo nd"nd" as thehe neww The new Toronto team mascots.mascots. They,They, too,too, were largelarge would debut during the 1977 blueblue jayys.s. season. It had a ballpark, called Blue JaysJays mascot B. J. Birdie entertains the crowd duringduring a 1980 gamegame at ExhibitionExhibition StadiumStadium inin Toronto.Toronto. BASEBALL COMES TO TORONTO 11 Blue Jays second baseman Steve Staggs fouls off a ball against the Boston Red Sox during the 1977 season. Exhibition Stadium, ready to Opening day in Toronto go. But the team still needed finally arrived on April 7, 1977. a name. So, a contest was held But there was one huge, white to determine one. More than problem. A spring snowstorm, 33,000 entries were submitted, combined with chilly winds off and Blue Jays was announced nearby Lake Ontario, turned as the winner. The new team Exhibition Stadium into a giant would be named after the mess. small blue, black, and white- Snow continued to fall as feathered bird common to the the teams warmed up. The pow- Toronto region. der covered the entire playing 12 TORONTO BLUE JAYS field in a white blanket. The EXHIBITION umpires and managers looked STADIUM at the field, trying to figure Exhibition Stadium was built in out if they could play baseball 1948 as part of the Exhibition Place in the snow. The grounds crew fairgrounds on Lake Ontario. The tried to determine if there was stadium hosted festivals, concerts, anything they could do to clear soccer games, and the Toronto the field before the game. They Argonauts of the Canadian Football finally found the solution: The League, along with the Blue Jays. grounds crew collected the Musicians such as Madonna, U2, and snow off the field with vacu- the Rolling Stones played concerts at ums. The umpires felt the field Exhibition Stadium. looked safe for baseball and The stadium was originally the game was played. aligned for football.
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