Editor’s note: Each year, the Star sports department contributes to the Toronto Star Santa Claus Fund via Proudfoot Corner. The drive allows children from financially disadvantaged families across the GTA to enjoy a gift box over the holidays. Proudfoot Corner is our tradition of recognizing donors. And as we do, we’ll take a behind-the-scenes look at some of the stories our journalists worked on this year.

The first Blue Jays game I ever covered was at Exhibition Stadium in 1988 as a first-year university student working for CIUT radio.

I’ve had a Jays media pass every year since then with the highly unfortunate exception of a three-year period following a coup at the campus radio station that eliminated the sports department in 1992. I missed a couple of big seasons.

That’s

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