Springer's Hartford Whalers batting gloves to be donated to Hockey Hall of Fame

Come the extremity of the Toronto Blue Jays' season, seasoned outfielder George Springer's batting gloves volition person a caller location -- but they won't beryllium going far.

Springer's Hartford Whalers-themed batting gloves volition beryllium going to the hallway of fame -- not the Baseball Hall of Fame, successful Cooperstown, New York, but the Hockey Hall of Fame successful Toronto.

The 36-year-old outfielder's gloves wage homage to his since-departed puerility team. Springer is simply a autochthonal of New Britain, Connecticut, located astir 20 minutes southwest of the state's superior of Hartford. Born successful 1989, Springer was a kid during the last years of the Whalers successful Connecticut, with the franchise playing its past crippled successful Hartford successful 1997 earlier relocating and rebranding to the Carolina Hurricanes.

Evidently impressed by the tribute, the Hockey Hall of Fame requested Springer's gloves erstwhile the play comes to a close.

Springer is entering the postseason connected the backmost of a resurgent 2025 campaign. He finished the regular play with 32 location runs, 84 RBIs and a .560 slugging percentage, each idiosyncratic bests since his tally of 3 consecutive All-Star Games from 2017-19. With his help, the Toronto Blue Jays won the AL East for the archetypal clip since 2015.

The Blue Jays volition play their archetypal crippled of the 2025 playoffs connected Oct. 4, against the victor of the New York Yankees/Boston Red Sox wild-card series.