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Toronto on top? Say it’s so, Joe

The Blue Jays’ last World Series victory was a jolt of ambition to a city that badly needed it. One of the superstars of 1993 believes the Jays can do it again Marcus Gee Toronto The Globe and Mail Published 16 minutes ago

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Joe Carter was 33 years old when he stepped up to home plate on an October night during Game 6 of the 1993 World Series . The city of Toronto was 159. Both had been waiting for this moment for a very long time.

Mr. Carter grew up in Oklahoma City, Okla. His father owned a downtown gas station where young Joe would pump gas as a kid. He had 10 brothers and sisters. The family was crazy about sports. To feed them all, his dad hunted quails, pheasants and rabbi

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