{"id":1598,"date":"2009-10-15T15:45:49","date_gmt":"2009-10-15T15:45:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballhalloffame.ca\/?p=1598"},"modified":"2009-10-15T15:45:49","modified_gmt":"2009-10-15T15:45:49","slug":"peter-widdrington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballhalloffame.ca\/fr\/peter-widdrington\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter Widdrington"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/baseballhalloffame.ca\/fr\/museum\/inductees\/peter-widdrington\/attachment\/2008-peter-widdrington\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1599\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1599\" title=\"Peter Widdrington\" src=\"https:\/\/baseballhalloffame.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/2008-peter-widdrington-207x300.jpg\" alt=\"Peter Widdrington\" width=\"207\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>Nom de famille : <\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;\">Peter Widdrington<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;\">Election: <\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;\">February 6, 2008<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;\">Induction: <\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;\">June 28,<\/span> <span style=\"font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;\">2008<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;\">Born (date, year, place): <\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;\">le 2 juin 1930 \u00e0 Toronto (Ontario)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;\">Died (date, year, place):<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;\"> February 11, 2005 in Aspen, Colorado<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>L\u2019un des dirigeants les plus respect\u00e9s de l\u2019histoire des Blue Jays de Toronto, Peter Widdrington est un dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 du Coll\u00e8ge Pickering, de l\u2019Universit\u00e9 Queen\u2019s et de Harvard, o\u00f9 il a obtenu son MBA. Il a d\u00e9but\u00e9 comme repr\u00e9sentant aux ventes chez Labatt\u2019s en 1955 et a graduellement mont\u00e9 les \u00e9chelons, occupant plusieurs postes de directeurs et le pr\u00e9sident de 1973 \u00e0 1989.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\nGrand amateur de sport, Widdrington a joint le conseil d\u2019administration des Blue Jays en 1976 \u00e0 titre d\u2019administrateur et comme pr\u00e9sident d\u00e8s 1991. Il \u00e9tait en poste lors des deux conqu\u00eates de la S\u00e9rie mondiale (1992 et 1993). Au cours de la d\u00e9cennie 90, il a pr\u00e9sid\u00e9 le comit\u00e9 marketing et licences des Ligues majeures, le comit\u00e9 des conseillers sp\u00e9ciaux et a \u00e9t\u00e9 lui-m\u00eame le conseiller principal du commissaire. Widdrington a \u00e9galement travaill\u00e9 \u00e0 la mise sur pied du r\u00e9seau TSN en 1984, la premi\u00e8re cha\u00eene sportive au Canada, ayant comme cons\u00e9quence positive une meilleure remont\u00e9e pour son \u00e9quipe.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\nSon implication avec le conseil d\u2019administration des Jays est largement reconnue. \u00ab Avec le temps, j\u2019ai c\u00f4toy\u00e9 et travaill\u00e9 avec la plupart des gens proches des propri\u00e9taires des 30 \u00e9quipes et leurs dirigeants et Peter se d\u00e9marquait largement des autres, a dit Donald Fehr, l\u2019ancien directeur ex\u00e9cutif du syndicat des joueurs. Il a grandement contribu\u00e9 aux succ\u00e8s des Jays, les aidant \u00e0 devenir l\u2019une des franchise les mieux g\u00e9r\u00e9s de tout le sport professionnel. \u00bb Widdrington \u00e9tait \u00e9galement un conseiller du Temple de la renomm\u00e9e et mus\u00e9e du baseball canadien et pr\u00e9sidait le comit\u00e9 des lev\u00e9es de fonds jusqu\u2019\u00e0 son d\u00e9c\u00e8s en 2005. <span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Name: Peter Widdrington Election: February 6, 2008 Induction: June 28, 2008 Born (date, year, place): June 2, 1930 in Toronto, Ontario Died (date, year, place): February 11, 2005 in Aspen, Colorado One of the most respected executives in Toronto Blue Jays history, Peter Widdrington graduated from Pickering College and Queen\u2019s University, prior to obtaining his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[554,525],"tags":[],"current":[],"class_list":["post-1598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-554","category-inductees"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - 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