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Originally Posted by actionjackson
There have been many sluggers that have donned the blue and white, but this guy was the first one. He was the first Blue Jays player to hit 30 HR in a season when he pulled it off in 1980. He would probably have been left out in the cold with the rest of the one dimensional sluggers on the free agent market this offseason, whereas back in his time HR and RBI ruled the day and those guys got paid. He was a big time fan favourite, and his son who goes by the same name also played for us very briefly. "Big John" Mayberry (Sr.) #10
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Too bad by the time the Yanks got him, he was already done. He had the perfect stroke for Yankee Stadium and really knew how to make a pitcher work.