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The year was 1993. Kim Campbell became Canada’s first female Prime Minister, Schindler’s List opened in theaters worldwide, the Waco, TX siege ended, Bevis and Butthead debuted on television, and the Toronto Blue Jays captured their second World Series title.
Many will say it was one of the finest World Series games ever played thanks to the walk-off home run by Joe Carter in game six against the Philadelphia Phillies as he leaped into the record books in front of thousands of cheering fans in the stadium and millions watching from home on television. It’s only fitting that the great Joe Carter is finally immortalized 33 years later with a statue in front of Rogers Centre in Toronto.
Canada’s lone MLB team announced yesterday that a statue of Joe Carter will be unveiled at the July 18th ball game to not only honour Joe Carter, but to commemorate the back-to-back World Series victories and the 50th anniversary of the ball club. An emotional Carter spoke at the press conference on Monday noting that his teammates of ’92 and ’93 were a special group and they all understood what it meant to play for an entire country.
The statue will be located between gates 5 and 6 at Rogers Centre on July 18th, plus the first 15 thousand fans through the gate that day will get replica 1992 and 93 World Series rings.
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