Blue Jays Fans, Former Players Pay Tribute to Ex-Manager Bobby Cox
Cox transformed the Blue Jays from a losing franchise to a winning one in the early 1980s. He went on to do the same with the Atlanta Braves.
Two franchises were left to mourn and reminisce after learning of the death of former manager Bobby Cox on Saturday. He was 84. In Toronto, where Cox managed the Blue Jays (1982-85), and in Atlanta , where he skippered the Braves (1978-81, 1990-2010), he was recalled as the man who turned around the fortunes of both teams.
The Blue Jays, a 1977 expansion team, were a combined 270-482 in their first five seasons under Roy Hartsfield and Bobby Mattick. They never finished out of the cellar in the old seven-team American League East. In 1982, the Blue Jays brought in Cox, who was coming off his first stint as manager of the Braves.
The Blue Jays celebrated his career on Saturday with a tribute video and honored him before their 14-1 win against the Los Angeles Angels with a moment of silence. "You'd have a hard time finding anybody who couldn't justify loving playing for Bobby" The fiery, legendary, one-of-a-kind Bobby Cox 💙 pic. twitter.
com/47dTvXVN79 — Toronto Blue Jays (@BlueJays) May 10, 2026 ‘Bobby instilled winning’ In his first season in Toronto, the Blue Jays posted their most-ever wins with 78. In his fourth season, the Blue Jays finished 99-62, drew almost 2. 5 million fans to their old open-air stadium – it was 32 degrees there at the start of the franchise’s inaugural game – and lost in seven games in the American League Championship Series to the Kansas City Royals.
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