Posts in Toronto Blue Jays
From ticket clerk to GM, Ash now also a Hall of Famer

He started out as a part-time ticket clerk with his hometown Toronto Blue Jays in May 1977 and rose through the club’s rank to become the assistant general manager for two World Series-winning squads and ultimately the team’s general manager who drafted Roy Halladay and Vernon Wells. And now you can also call Gord Ash, a Canadian Baseball Hall of Famer.

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Remembering Doc: Roy Halladay's pal Isaac McFadyen

With the late great Roy Halladay seemingly on the cusp of being elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame, we wanted to take a look back at his Cooperstown-worthy career and what type of person he was. Halladay may have been all business on the field, but, as this story about his friendship with Isaac McFadyen that Canadian Baseball Network editor-in-chief Bob Elliott wrote back in 2009 attests, he had a kind and generous heart away from it.

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