How the Toronto Blue Jays history timeline game works

Blue Jays milestones fill this deck, each with a short description under its title, and you put them in the order they happened. You begin with one card on the timeline, its year in view. Each new card goes in the gap you pick. Pick well and the year appears. Pick poorly and the card still lands where it belongs, but it costs one of your three lives.

Toronto's story is fairly short: an expansion start, a climb to the top of baseball, a long drought and a lively return to the postseason. Pitching awards make up a surprising share of the cards, and some of them went to the same arm. The ballpark appears more than once under different names, so read the description to see which moment it's really about.

Want a longer game? On the deck tree you can tick this deck alongside any other one measured in release years and dates, and they shuffle into a single timeline together.

What's in the deck

Here are 19 of the 19 cards you might be dealt. Their values stay hidden until you place them.

Played their inaugural season The expansion team debuted in a snowy Exhibition Stadium
Posted their first winning season The young franchise finished above .500 for the first time
Won their first AL East title The club earned its first division crown but fell in the ALCS
George Bell won the AL MVP The left fielder became the franchise's first Most Valuable Player
SkyDome opened The team moved into a stadium with a retractable roof
Dave Stieb threw the franchise's first no-hitter The veteran ace finally completed a no-no after years of near-misses
First MLB team to draw four million fans Attendance at the domed ballpark set a record
Won their first World Series The first title to leave the United States, over the Braves
Repeated as World Series champions Joe Carter's walk-off homer off Mitch Williams ended the Fall Classic
Roger Clemens won his first Toronto Cy Young The ace claimed the award in his debut season with the club
Roger Clemens won a second straight Cy Young The Rocket repeated as the award winner before leaving for New York
Rogers Communications bought the team The Canadian media company purchased a controlling stake
Roy Halladay won the AL Cy Young Doc emerged as the game's premier workhorse starter
SkyDome was renamed Rogers Centre The downtown ballpark took on its owner's name
Jose Bautista hit 54 home runs Joey Bats led the majors in homers in his breakout season
Ended a long playoff drought with a bat flip Jose Bautista's emphatic ALDS home run capped the return to October
Reached a second straight ALCS The club made another deep playoff run
Vladimir Guerrero Jr. made his debut The touted young slugger, son of a Hall of Famer, arrived
Robbie Ray won the Cy Young Award The left-hander led the league in ERA and strikeouts