Come the end of the Toronto Blue Jays ' season, veteran outfielder George Springer 's batting gloves will have a new home -- but they won't be going far.

Springer's Hartford Whalers-themed batting gloves will be going to the hall of fame -- not the Baseball Hall of Fame, in Cooperstown, New York, but the Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto.

The 36-year-old outfielder's gloves pay homage to his since-departed childhood team. Springer is a native of New Britain, Connecticut, located approximately 20 minutes southwest of the state's capital of Hartford. Born in 1989, Springer was a child during the final years of the Whalers in Connecticut, with the franchise playing its last game in Hartford in 1997 before relocating and rebranding to the Carolina Hurricanes .

Evidently impressed by the

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