The Toronto Blue Jays baseball club plies its trade in major league baseball’s American League in the East Division, where they first came into being as an expansion ballclub back in 1977. Playing ball in the famed SkyDome since 1989, the Jays – as they’re more familiarly known – have won five division titles, two league titles and two World Series championships in their relatively short time in the baseball world. They’ve also contended well and consistently for much of the last two decades, which has marked them as members of baseball’s upper division elite on many an occasion, which has also helped sell a ton of Toronto Blue Jays tickets.

Born in 1977, the Jays played their first game on April 7, 1977 against the Chicago White Sox. Sales Toronto Blue Jays tickets for that game came to nearly 45,000 for a game played in old Exhibition Stadium, which wasn’t really a baseball facility. Like many an expansion ballclub, the team would work hard, but struggle for much of the season.

The Jays would continue to try to improve its standing in the baseball world over the next several seasons, finally breaking through to a solid season in 1982, where they nearly came up with a winning record under manager Bobby Cox and strong pitching from future star pitchers Dave Stieb and Jim Clancy. Additionally, Toronto Blue Jays tickets would begin to really take off in terms of sales. They’d finally swing their way to a winning record in 1983. By the mid-1980s, and with superstar shortstop Tony Fernandez anchoring the infield, the Jays would be solid contenders for postseason play.

It all began to really come together for the young ballclub in 1985, when they stormed their way to the first of five total divisional titles, benefitting from strong relief pitching from future star reliever Tom Henke. Players during this era included league MVP George Bell, Jesse Barfield and Fred “the Crime Dog” McGriff. Sales of Toronto Blue Jays tickets would be very strong.

With the opening of the SkyDome in 1989, Jay fortunes would continue to improve, and for five years thereafter the club would enjoy its greatest success up to that point, starting with it capturing its second division title that year. After the 1990 season, the Jays would pull the trigger on a trade which would prove very fruitful, gaining Joe Carter and Roberto Alomar from the San Diego Padres, in the process increasing fan interest in Toronto Blue Jays tickets that led to them selling over four-million of them during the 1991 season.

1992 and 1993 would see the Jays win back-to-back World Series titles, and pitcher Jack Morris – acquired after the 1991 season from the Minnesota Twins – would lead them to glory. Perhaps most famous during that era was Joe Carter’s walk-off game-winning (and series winning) homerun in Game 6 off a pitch from Philadelphia Phillies closer Mitch “Wild Thing” Williams, which was only the second such homer of the type in the history of baseball’s World Series. Toronto Blue Jays tickets were treasured by fans during this era.

Since then, the Blue Jays have added yet another divisional title, in the process giving Jays fans the kind of quality baseball for the most part that Toronto fans had come to expect, along with an occasional wild card entry into the American League’s postseason tournament. Sales of Toronto Blue Jays tickets have remained strong as a result, due in part to the presence of players like Vernon Wells and Kevin Millar in addition to strong field generalship from manager Cito Gaston.