If These Walls Could Talk: Toronto Blue Jays Stories from the Toronto Blue Jays Dugout, Locker Room, and Press Box

by Elliott, Bob; Gillick, Pat

• ISBN13: 9781629377476
• ISBN10: 1629377473
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2020-04-21
• Publisher: Triumph Books

Summary

Since their inception in 1977, the Toronto Blue Jays have been one of the most dynamic franchises in all of baseball. As an award-winning, longtime Jays columnist, Bob Elliott has witnessed more than his share of that history up close and personal. In If These Walls Could Talk: Toronto Blue Jays, Elliott provides insight into the Jays' inner sanctum as only he can. Readers will gain the perspective of players, coaches, and front office executives in times of greatness as well as defeat, making for a keepsake no fan will want to miss.

Author Biography

Bob Elliott is an award-winning Canadian journalist who covered the Blue Jays for the Toronto Sun from 1986 until his retirement in 2016. He was the recipient of the 2012 J. G. Taylor Spink Award by the National Baseball Hall of Fame and was elected to the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame in 2015. Elliott has written three previous books about baseball: Hard Ball, The Ultimate Blue Jays Trivia Book, and The Northern Game: Baseball the Canadian Way. Gillick was the Blue Jays’ general manager from 1978 to 1994 and guided them to two World Series titles. He resides in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.