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Roy Halladay Gave Toronto Everything—Even When We Didn’t Deserve It

November 8, 2017December 2, 2019 - by Nathaniel Basen

The ex-Blue Jays’ search for perfection made him feel superhuman, and fans loved him for it

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Photograph by Keith Allison
Sports

The Rise and Fall and Rise of Roberto Osuna

October 2, 2017April 3, 2020 - by Nathaniel Basen

As the Blue Jays close another losing season, we’re reminded that we learn the most about athletes when nothing goes right

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Photograph of Jose Reyes by Keith Allison
Sports

Code of Misconduct

November 16, 2015December 7, 2020 - by Stacey May Fowles

José Reyes and Greg Hardy are pointed reminders of sports culture’s tortured relationship with domestic violence

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Photograph by jgsprenger
Sports

The Journeyman

October 27, 2015August 21, 2020 - by Chris Turner

Chris Colabello kept fouling off baseball’s bad breaks until he got a pitch he could hit

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Photograph courtesy of the Boston Public Library, Leslie Jones Collection
Sports

Doubleday Tripping during the Year of Our Jays

October 16, 2015April 8, 2020 - by Jeremy Klaszus

From the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown to Yankee Stadium in the Bronx

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Photograph by jgsprenger
Sports

And the Band Plays On

October 15, 2015April 8, 2020 - by Stacey May Fowles

Last night, the Toronto Blue Jays vanquished the Texas Rangers; today, life is good

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Photograph courtesy of Bain News Service/Library of Congress
Technology

@Baseball

October 13, 2015April 8, 2020 - by Chris Turner

The playoffs and Twitter fit together like a hand and a glove

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Photograph of Bryce Harper by Keith Allison
Sports

Men Will Be Boys

September 29, 2015July 21, 2020 - by Stacey May Fowles

What’s wrong with clubhouse violence in baseball

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Photograph by Keith Allison/CC BY-SA 2.0
Sports

Playing the Long Game

April 13, 2015May 2, 2020 - by Stacey May Fowles

If Major League Baseball wants to attract new fans, pace of play rules are the wrong way to go

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Cover of the Mar/Apr issue of The Walrus magazine. Mar/Apr 2021

Double issue: declaring your data at the border, the Group of Seven 100 years later, an Indigenous-led camp for unhoused people in Edmonton, death in the age of Facebook, and quitting America for good.

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