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Stories from the Toronto Blue Jays Dugout, Locker Room, and Press Box
By Bob Elliott, Foreword by Pat Gillick
If These Walls Could Talk
SPORTS & RECREATION
240 Pages, 5.5 x 8.5
Formats: Trade Paper, EPUB, Mobipocket, PDF
Trade Paper, $17.95 (US $17.95) (CA $23.95)
ISBN 9781629377476
Rights: WOR
Triumph Books (Apr 2020)
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If These Walls Could Talk: Toronto Blue Jays
Stories from the Toronto Blue Jays Dugout, Locker Room, and Press Box
By Bob Elliott / Foreword by Pat Gillick
Contact: Bill Ames, Triumph Books, 312.676.4256, b.ames@triumphbooks.com
Since their inception in 1977, the Toronto Blue Jays have been one of the most dynamic franchises in all of baseball. Chronicling the Blue Jays for more than 30 years, Hall of Fame baseball writer Bob Elliott provides access into the Blue Jays’ inner sanctum as only he can. From the 1980s and 1990s, when Toronto won five division titles and two World Series, to the current prospect-laden team with Bo Bichette and Vladimir Guerrero Jr., If These Walls Could Talk: Toronto Blue Jays provides a one-of-a-kind, insider’s look into the great moments and interesting anecdotes from the Blue Jays’ storied franchise.
Bob Elliott has witnessed more than his share of that history up close and personal. Read about how Rickey Henderson and Joe Carter still playfully barb about who’s the real hero of the 1993 World Series, Jose Bautista’s circuitous journey to stardom, Cito Gaston’s humble beginnings while playing baseball for an American welding company and how 14-year-old Guerrero first marveled team executives.
In If These Walls Could Talk: Toronto Blue Jays (Triumph Books, April 21, 2020), Elliott brings readers 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. Highlights include:
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.
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