“The blue is back in Blue Jays.” So declared team president Paul Beeston as the Blue Jays officially unveiled their logo and uniforms for the 2012 season at a noon press conference, confirming rumours we reported two months ago. The new look revives several classic team designs: the original-style bird, split lettering, a red maple [...]

This coming Monday, five short days after the Blue Jays put the finishing touches on their season with a win in Chicago, Alex Anthopoulos will celebrate his second anniversary as the team’s general manager. If he is pleased with his performance over those two years, it is with good reason. After all, while this year’s [...]

It may be back to the future time for the Blue Jays. Based on a leaked image picked up by the “athletics aesthetics” website Uni Watch, the 2012 Blue Jays may adopt a variation of the iconic logo the team used during its first two decades. While the version making the rounds of the internet [...]

For at least one day the clock turned back at the Rogers Centre, and the building felt uncannily like the SkyDome again, the site of so many Blue Jays triumphs over the years. This Sunday the air was thick with nostalgia as over 45,000 fans gathered to pay tribute to Toronto’s first Baseball Hall of Fame inductee and watch as Roberto Alomar’s number 12 was hung from the rafters, retired in honour of his accomplishments.

It doesn’t rank remotely among the most offensive violations suffered by the people of Toronto at this same time last year, but Blue Jays fans will probably tell you that they had an additional important reason to be upset about the G20. "Security concerns" related to the world leaders’ summit led the Jays to choose to relocate their weekend series at home against the Phillies to Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia in late June 2010.

If you were a baseball fan in Toronto during the summer of 1981, the best place to catch a game was a neighbourhood diamond. The Blue Jays played so poorly during the first half of the season that when major league players went on strike in mid-June, it was a relief to long-suffering fans (the team lost 11 straight games before the walkout). While the Blue Jays didn’t make it to the World Series, Toronto was home to championship baseball action that October thanks to the effort of the Cabbagetown Group Softball League (CGSL) to bring the fifth edition of the Gay Softball World Series (GSWS) to the city’s east side.

Tony Fernandez had good reason to jump for the Star’s camera in 1989: when today’s ad was first seen by the original owner of this scorebook, the Jays were transforming what appeared to be a long, losing season into an American League East title.

Every Saturday at noon, Historicist looks back at the events, places, and characters—good and bad—that have shaped Toronto into the city we know today. White Borders (T206) baseball cards of Jim McGinley and Myron “Moose” Grimshaw, 1909–1911, from the Library of Congress. For the first half of the twentieth century, this city was a major [...]

Photo by Keith Allison. Thanks a lot, Vernon. Those fans who have delighted in slagging you—for your astronomical salary, your limitations as a player, and your perceived lack of leadership—have long had their say, and you have encountered your fair share of cynics among this city’s sports media over the many years, but we say [...]

Prior to this season, Jose Bautista was best-known for the ignoble honour of being the only baseball player to appear on the roster of five teams in a single season. Now, he's a break-out star who led the major leagues in home runs. In addition to his fifty-four home runs—which surpassed George Bell's previous Toronto Blue Jays record of forty-seven—he drove in 124 runs and has played well defensively at right field and third base.

1960 Topps baseball card of Sparky Anderson, the year he joined the Toronto Maple Leafs as a player. George “Sparky” Anderson, who died yesterday, will be remembered in the baseball world for many things. The pennants he won as a manager with the “Big Red Machine” in Cincinnati during the 1970s and with the Detroit [...]

Each week, Torontoist examines the upcoming TV listings and makes note of programs that are entertaining, informative, and of quality. Or, alternately, none of those. The result: Televisualist. Yep. Them’s zombies. Illustration by Brett Lamb/Torontoist. Monday Those interested in election coverage have a few choices: CP24 has live coverage all night long, as does Rogers [...]