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Originally Posted by dennis_keith
I'm basing my statement on the fact that people are saying that Ralph Caballero was the last living Phila. Blue Jay. This does not coincide with the fact that there is one player from the 1945 Philadelphia (NL) team that is still alive - Don Hasenmayer. He is not credited as being a Blue Jay - therefore he must be a Phillie. That means that the name Blue Jays no longer applied in 1945 and must have reverted back to the Phillies. I've also read that the Blue Jays name lasted until 1949, but that was only on paper somewhere in Bob Carpenter's office and no one called them that after '44..
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Given all of the other evidence, it seems more likely that those who said Caballero was the last living Blue Jay (including me) were wrong about that, rather than that the name was dropped before the '45 season.