Former Blue Jays pitcher Roy Halladay remembered as caring, generous man
Sean Clayton was just hoping to play catch with Roy Halladay when he first met the former Blue Jays pitcher in 2008 through the Make-a-Wish organization. Halladay made sure the youngster from Montreal had a visit he’d always remember.
Clayton, who had been diagnosed with cancer almost two years earlier, had spent eight months in hospital before making the trip to the team’s spring-training complex in Dunedin, Fla.
“I didn’t have much to do in the hospital, so every day I would watch the Blue Jays,” he said.
Halladay was the staff ace and face of the franchise for a Toronto team that struggled through most of the 2000s. The eight-time all-star died Tuesday at age 40 when the small plane he was flying crashed into the Gulf of Mexico.