TORONTO – The Toronto Blue Jays are about to end the longest playoff drought by any North American professional sports team.
It’s been almost 22 years since Major League Baseball playoffs came north of the border and things have changed, naturally, since 1993 when the Blue Jays won the World Series.
Here’s a look back at the year 1993.
1: Kim Campbell became Canada’s first female prime minister (1 of 2 PMs in 1993)
2: The Loonie was 77.54 cents US
3: “Jurassic Park” was top of the box office
4: Mobile phones looked like this.
5: Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson gets lifetime ban from athletics for doping
6: The Montreal Canadiens won the Stanley Cup
7: “I Will Always Love You” by Whitney Houston was the number one single in Canada
8: The X-Files debut
9: The World Wide Web pretty much happened
10: The average highest cost of gasoline was 58.4 cents/litre…..in Yellowknife. Calgary had the lowest average at 42.1 cents/litre.
11: Conservative Party of Canada launched the “Face Ad,” attacking Jean Chretien
12: Jean Chrétien was also prime minister.
13: The Edmonton Eskimos won the 81st Grey Cup
14: And of course, the Toronto Blue Jays won the World Series at home.
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