Sallie Gibbons figured it’s about time.



And on Friday night, she finally got the opportunity she’s been waiting for.



“I’ve been telling John the last 10 years, you know, ‘Am I ever going to get to throw out the first pitch?’ I’m not getting any younger,” she says.



She’s 80.



“Eighty is really big,” she says. “It’s a big number. Eighty sounds like old people.”



But Sallie Gibbons does not fit the old-people stereotype. Back home on the outskirts of San Antonio, she rides her horse five days a week. She mucks out the stables every afternoon.



That John she mentioned? He’s Sallie’s son, the youngest of her three kids. John also manages the Toronto Blue Jays. So he can pull some strings if he wants a certain person to throw out the ceremonial first pitch.



On Friday night, that person was his mom.



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