A run at a World Series championship is bringing memories flooding back in Medicine Hat: the former home of the Blue Jays’ farm team, and the site of visits by the world championship teams in the early 1990s.
Those games are the stuff of local legend in the Hat, taking residents back to when the city had a minor league farm club — and the big leagues came to southeast Alberta.
That includes Greg Morrison, a high school kid and aspiring ball player when future hall of famers like Paul Molitor and Roberto Alomar visited his hometown in 1994.
Morrison wasn’t in the stands, however.
He was on the field, playing with a team of highly-rated amateur prospects tasked with taking on the best team in baseball.
Toronto Blue Jays Paul Molitor, left, and Joe Carter, right, stand with the World Series trophy in the Jays clubhouse after capturing their second straight World Series title on Oct.
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