Bob's Bio
Bob Elliott
Elliott covered his first Major League game on opening day 1978 at Olympic Stadium.
(New York Mets 3, Montreal Expos 2.
WP-Skip Lockwood, LP-Rudy May.
HR-Tom Grieve.)
After covering the Montreal Expos, Elliott moved to Toronto in 1987 and covered his 31st opening when the Blue Jays played at Yankee Stadium in 2008.
In July, he was nominated for the J.G. Taylor Spink award by the Toronto chapter of the Baseball Writers Association of America.
BBWAA voters with 10 or more years experience elected Nick Peters (Sacramento) as the 2009 winner. He will be honoured in July at Cooperstown, N.Y. Elliott finished second and Dave Van Dyck (Chicago) was third.
In October, Elliott was presented with a Achievement Award by Sports Media Canada joining Canadian writing legends like Ted Reeve, Milt Dunnell and Scott Young.
Elliott does not golf. He does not watch hockey.
He wrote the best seller Hard Ball on MVP winner George Bell in 1990, The Ultimate Blue Jays Trivia Book in 1993 and The Northern Game: Baseball The Canadian Way in 2005.
Whether covering the Expos or the Blue Jays, his love has been Canadian baseball ... be it at his father's side as the Kingston Lakeview Indians defeated the Orillia Majors to win the 1967 OBA senior title, coaching bantams in the Kingscourt Little League bantam division in 1970, helping sandlot teams almost every year since, from peewee to senior.
He has a passion for promoting and recognizing hard-working Canadian players, as numbers have grown in the majors, the minor leagues and attending colleges south of the border and at University of British Columbia.
Elliott hopes to accomplish more growth this with this web site with the top players eligible for the draft, which began in 1995, Canadians in college, Canadians in the minors, Team Canada and links to stories from coast-to-coast.
Peters Wins Spink Award
