Posts in Toronto Blue Jays
Antonacci: Axford directs $50,000 JaysCare donation to Port Dover minor ball

“Once a closer, always a closer.

Former Toronto Blue Jays reliever John Axford has not thrown a professional pitch since the 2023 World Baseball Classic, but last week he picked up a save for youth baseball in his hometown of Port Dover.

Axford was at Rogers Centre on Canada Day to close the deal on a $50,000 donation to Port Dover Minor Baseball from the Jays Care Foundation, part of a $300,000 gift to six youth baseball organizations championed by six Canadian-born former Blue Jays.”

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Antonacci: Devo and me, then and now

“I knew the answers. All of them.

I just needed Devo to pick me.

Devon White and Dave Stewart were at my elementary school in Etobicoke about a month after winning the World Series in 1993, and my baseball-mad nine-year-old self could barely believe he was in the same room as two real-life Blue Jays.

Most of what they said has been lost to time, though I recall Stewart giving us tips on how to sneak a peek at our Christmas gifts by carefully peeling off the corners of the wrapping paper.”

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Elliott: It's Whyte riding the mustangs, Green stood proudly

“Now, what would you expect the daughter of a seven-time Gold Glove winner to do as a grown up?

Maybe running a basketball camp after two years in the WNBA?

Repairing the leather on the latest Rawlings model?

Or working in an office with a 9-to-5 job?

Not quite.

Davellyn Whyte, daughter of new Canadian Hall of Fame member Devon, breaks wild mustangs. “

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