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5. Toronto Blue Jays

verfasst von : Frank P. Jozsa Jr.

Erschienen in: American League Franchises

Verlag: Springer International Publishing

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For decades Major League Baseball (MLB) officials considered the Greater Toronto Area to be a prime site as a potential big-league city, in part, because it was home to the International League’s Toronto Maple Leafs professional baseball team from 1896 to 1967. When the National League (NL) San Francisco Giants’ Bob Lurie, who purchased the club from Horace Stoneham in 1976, expressed interest in moving his team there, the city of Toronto financed the renovation of 54,000-seat Exhibition Stadium—home of the Canadian Football League’s Argonauts—in order to lure a professional baseball franchise.

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¹For the early history of MLB and the Toronto Blue Jays, see Frank P. Jozsa Jr., Baseball, Inc.: The National Pastime as Big Business (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2006), and James Quirk and Rodney D. Fort, Pay Dirt: The Business of Professional Team Sports (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1992).

²Team performance information and highlights are available at “Toronto Blue Jays Timeline,” http://www.toronto.bluejays.mlb.com, cited 3 March 2015, Official Major League Baseball Fact Book 2005 Edition (St. Louis, MO: Sporting News, 2005), and “American League Team Histories,” http://www.sportsecyclopedia.com, cited 1 May 2015.

³“Joe Carter Thanks Cito Gaston,” http://www.youtube.com, cited 1 March 2015

⁴“Rogers Communications,” http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca, cited 8 August 2015

⁵See “The Business of Baseball,” http://www.forbes.com, cited 28 January 2015, and “Major League Baseball Valuations,” http://www.bloomberg.com, cited 2 February 2015.

⁶This survey and its results appear in Paul Swaney, “2014 MLB Ballpark Experience Rankings,” http://www.stadiumjourney.com, cited 23 February 2015.

⁷The sources are Barry Janoff, “Report: When It Comes to 2014 MLB Fans, the Most Loyal Group is the Cards,” http://www.nysportsjournalism.com, cited 23 February 2015, and “MLB Team Loyalty Winners and Losers,” http://www.brandkeys.com, cited 14 February 2015.

⁸Two additional but interesting business articles about the Blue Jays are David George-Cosh, “Toronto is Back (Sort of),” Wall Street Journal (18 April 2013): D6, and “Resurgence Changing How Sports World Views Canadian Market,” SportsBusiness Journal (28 February 2011): 24.

Titel: Toronto Blue Jays
verfasst von: Frank P. Jozsa Jr.
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Buch: American League Franchises
Print ISBN: 978-3-319-25995-6

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-25996-3

Copyright-Jahr: 2016
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25996-3_5