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Article: Blue Jays Have Things to Prove
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- The Washington Post
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- September 26, 1987
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Now, we're going to find out what the Toronto Blue Jays are made
of. Bill Madlock made sure of that on Thursday night when he went
out of the base line to flip Tony Fernandez upside down with a
head-first, roll-block slide that sent the all-star shortstop into
surgery for a dislocated fracture of the olecranon bone in his elbow.
Most Blue Jays think Madlock's takeout slide was, as Nelson
Liriano said, "a dirty play." Most Detroit Tigers think it was
hard-nosed, pennant-race baseball. Madlock said, when asked if he
would phone Fernandez in the hospital, "Why should I? I'm not the
Welcome Wagon."
Most neutral viewers, with the aid of replays, think the play was
gray. Not dirty. Not clean, ...