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The Toronto Blue Jays were founded and joined the MLB in 1977
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The Blue Jays home feild was based in Toronto at Exhibition Stadium from 1977 to 1989
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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.
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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
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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
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The city of Toronto Hosts their first ever Allstar Game in the history of the franchise
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The Blue Jays win their 1st world series and become the 1st Canadian team to win it.
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The Blue Jays win their 2nd world series back-to-back, while doing it on Canadian soil.
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"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
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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.
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The Blue Jays sign Carlos Delgado to a massive $68M/4yr contract making him the highest paid baseball player at the time.
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In 2011 Jose Bautista was the only Blue Jay player to make the allstar game after finishing with 43 HR and 103 RBI
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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
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The Blue Jays and Marlins agree on a huge trade involving 12 players in which the Blue Jays get allstar shortstop Jose Reyes.
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The Blue Jays aquire big name free agents R.A. Dickey, Melky Cabrera, and Dioner Navarro, and many other faces.
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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.
