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1979 Utica Blue Jays baseball program from the New York-Penn League

Utica Blue Jays

Strange fact about the Toronto Blue Jays: during the expansion team’s 1977 debut season in Major League Baseball, the club made due with only one minor league farm club! Odder still, Toronto placed their lone affiliate in Utica, New York in the Class A New York-Penn League, a short-season circuit made up largely of teenagers still years away from Major League Baseball on the developmental ladder.

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Utica Blue Sox New-York Penn League

Utica Blue Sox

New York-Penn League (1977-2001) Born: 1981 – Re-branded from Utica Blue Jays Moved: 2001 (Aberdeen Ironbirds) First Game: June 19, 1981 (W 5-4 @ Little Falls Mets)

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