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

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

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

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

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781629377476
Publisher: Triumph Books
Publication date: 04/21/2020
Series: If These Walls Could Talk
Pages: 240
Sales rank: 1,117,506
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

Foreword Pat Gillick ix

Introduction xiii

Part 1 1992 Ken Dayley Pittsburgh Loses NLCS Toronto Wins ALCS Jays Win World Series 1

Part II 1993 Joe Carter's Walk-Off Home Run, The St. Paul Connection: Molitor Replaces Winfield 25

Part III The 22-Year Lull Shawn Green Carlos Delgado: Two Who Should Have Stayed, Manager Jim Fregosi Could Light Up a Room, The Rocket's Back-to-Back Cy Young Awards, The Scouts Are the Backbone of the Blue Jays' Success 41

Part IV 2015-16 Jose Bautista Anthopoulos Wins His Bets Bautista Encarnacion Go Deep 103

Part V A Pair of San Antonio Roses Cito Gaston John Gibbons 143

Part VI Hall of Fame Blue Jays Robbie Alomar Roy Halladay Pat Gillick Tom Cheek 161

Part VII The Present and Future Vladimir Guerrero Jr. and the Kids 209

Acknowledgments 221

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