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Workers prepare the SkyDome field yesterday for the Blue Jays home opener, at 7
Workers prepare the SkyDome field yesterday for the Blue Jays home opener, at 7

Workers prepare the SkyDome field yesterday for the Blue Jays home opener, at 7

Date4/9/1990
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Original Toronto Star caption: Workers prepare the SkyDome field yesterday for the Blue Jays home opener; at 7.30 tonight against the Texas Rangers; who beat the Jays 4-2 last night in Arlington. U.S. President George Bush will attend.
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ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0098114F
Getting ready: Sam Viera uses steam to blast away dirt on the field at Exhibition Stadium yesterday as the crew makes preparatios for the Jays home opener next Monday against the Yankees
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Fans and ballplayers are little more than dots in this bird's-eye view of the jam-packed SkyDome, taken last night from a window washer's cage on the CN Tower at Jays home opener
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Blue Jays may need to draw full houss like this one in order to meet a substantially heftier 1983 payroll
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