Mike Wilner: Toronto’s Ellen Harrigan has worked in pro baseball for 4 decades. She has 3 World Series rings to show for it
Four decades ago, Ellen Harrigan found her calling, one that she wasn’t even looking for, because she’s tall.
“The Blue Jays called me up and I went for an interview,” Harrigan recalled from her spring training rental in Arizona as she tunes up for her 43rd season working in professional baseball. Back then, the Jays’ offices at Exhibition Stadium had her, Gillick, farm director Elliott Wahle and a couple of other administrative support personnel.
And she got in at the right time. Harrigan was hired by the Jays right after the 1981 strike. They were a year away from embarking on an 11-year run over which they won fewer than 89 games only twice, and never fewer than 86, culminating in back-to-back World Series championships. “I handled international credentials,” said Harrigan, “alongside those that Major League Baseball , so I still had my hand a little bit in the Toronto post-season and all the excitement that we had there.”
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