Remember When: Blue Jays Play Their First Ever Game in 1977

On this day in 1977 the Blue Jays played their first ever game against the Chicago White Sox! Tickets were $3.00 and it snowed!

Paul Beeston, as according to this interview, was one of the Blue Jay’s first employees, and remembers the snowy April game, stating “In less than ideal conditions, we played the game. You didn’t know how much it was going to snow. It was more than a dusting, but it wasn’t so much that we couldn’t clean off and play the game…We had our own Zamboni.… We had squeegees out there because the water didn’t drain, it had to be pushed off.”

Beeston continued, “I don’t know how we’d look back on that day if we hadn’t won. Because the winning made it all special. Forget the delay with the weather. Forget the coldness. When you walked away, you could say, “We beat the Chicago White Sox. A big city in the States came here and we won.”

Watch this! It’ll help jog your memory of those very first Jays games!

(Retrontario)