40 years ago: Gillick robs the Yankees blind

Dec 9 2022 by Bluebird Banter

 

The Jays acquire future Hall of Famer Fred McGriff

Five days ago, Fred McGriff was announced as 2023 inductee to the Baseball Hall of Fame, a move many considered widely overdue. In the way the timing was perfect, a coda to a Blue Jays tenure that began almost exactly 40 years before. While this year’s winter meetings wrapped up with the Jays having done very little, as the meetings were similarly wrapping up on this date in 1982, Pat Gillick finalized a deal that would end up...

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