46 Years Ago Today The Blue Jays played their first-ever game: on April 7, 1977, at Exhibition Stadium in Toronto. If you are old enough to remember Exhibition Stadium, you’ll remember it was a...
in Toronto. If you are old enough to remember Exhibition Stadium, you’ll remember it was a terrible place to watch a baseball game. Theplayed their CFL games there, so the seats faced the 55-yard line, not the diamond. You had to turn your head to watch the play. They made some improvements there as time passed, butIt was cold. The official game temperature was 0 C, but there was wind and snow. So it would have seemed colder sitting in those stands.
We’d finish last in the AL East for the first five years of our existence. Then, it would take until our 7th season to have our first winning season.
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