Longtime big league slugger and ex-Blue Jay Dave Parker has died less than a month before he was to be inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
Dave Parker dies less than a month before his National Baseball Hall of Fame induction
Newly elected Hall of Famer Dave Parker played for the Blue Jays
Dave Parker, who was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame on Sunday, played his final 13 games for the Toronto Blue Jays in 1991.
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