On April 7, 1977, the Toronto Blue Jays debuted in a snowstorm at Exhibition Stadium, turning a frozen, chaotic Opening Day into a moment of national pride as 45,000 bundled fans watched Doug Ault hit two home runs and baseball finally come to Canada’s biggest city.
Three weeks before Fred Merkle’s infamous 1908 “boner,” the Cubs had already lost a game on the same base-running mistake in Pittsburgh — meaning Merkle’s blunder was less a lone lapse than the sequel to baseball’s forgotten first act.
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