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Founding of The Toronto Blue Jays
The Toronto Blue Jays were founded and joined the MLB in 1977 -
A Place to Call Home
The Blue Jays home feild was based in Toronto at Exhibition Stadium from 1977 to 1989 -
The wins just keep on comin
From June 2-13 the blue jays won all thier games setting a new franchise record for longest win streak in Blue Jays history with 11 straight wins, they also repeated this in 1998 tying the 11 game win streak. -
Jays miss out
The Blue Jays were up 3.5 games with 7 left to play, they ended up dropping all of their last 7 games and finished in 2nd place with a 96-66 record which left them 2 games out of the playoffs in 1987 -
SkyDome
The SkyDome first opened in 1989 and the Blue Jays played there until 2005, it was then purchased by Rogers Communications and was then renamed to the Rogers Centerwhere they still play to date -
Hosts of the Allstar Game
The city of Toronto Hosts their first ever Allstar Game in the history of the franchise -
1st World Series
The Blue Jays win their 1st world series and become the 1st Canadian team to win it. -
Back-to-Back Wins!
The Blue Jays win their 2nd world series back-to-back, while doing it on Canadian soil. -
The Historical Call
"A swing , and a belt! Left Field! Way back! Blue Jays win it! The Blue Jays are World Series champions as Joe Carter hits a three-run home run in the ninth inning and the Blue Jays have repeated as World Series champions! Touch 'em all, Joe, you'll never hit a bigger home run in your life! -Tom Cheek http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toronto_Blue_Jays -
1994 players strike
The 1994 strike resulted in the rest of the season being canceled along with the post season and World Series. The strike lasted 232 days making it the longest stoppage in baseball history and breaking the record of the 1981 MLB strike. -
Delgado Signing
The Blue Jays sign Carlos Delgado to a massive $68M/4yr contract making him the highest paid baseball player at the time. -
Allstar!
In 2011 Jose Bautista was the only Blue Jay player to make the allstar game after finishing with 43 HR and 103 RBI -
#12
Just one week after being named the first ever Blue Jay Hall of Famer the Blue Jays retired their first number ever, it was #12 worn proudly by Roberto Alomar in which he wore during his time with the Blue Jays -
Jays get Reyes!
The Blue Jays and Marlins agree on a huge trade involving 12 players in which the Blue Jays get allstar shortstop Jose Reyes. -
New faces
The Blue Jays aquire big name free agents R.A. Dickey, Melky Cabrera, and Dioner Navarro, and many other faces. -
Blue Jays #1 alltime run producer
Carlos Delgado is the Toronto Blue Jays #1 run producer in his 12 years with the club he hit a total 336 homeruns and 1,058 RBIs, he also collected a total of 1413 hits and hit for an average of .282, he also holds 15 batting records for the Toronto Blue Jays franchise.
