Bios
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 32nd opening when the Blue Jays hosted the Detroit TIgers at Rogers Centre in 2009.
The Toronto chapter of the Baseball Writers Association of America nominated Elliott for the J.G. Taylor Spink and at the all-star game in New York in 2008 he was placed on the ballot.
BBWAA voters with 10 or more years experience elected Nick Peters (Sacramento) as the 2009 winner at the winter meetings in Las Vegas. Peters will be honoured this July at Cooperstown, N.Y. Elliott finished second and Dave Van Dyck (Chicago) was third.
At the all-star game in St. Louis in 2009, Elliott was nominated again, joing Bill Madden, of the New York Daily News and Joe Guilotti, former Boston Herald writer on the 2010 Spink ballot which will be announced at the 2009 winter meetings in Indianapolis.
Madden was named the Spink winner Dec. 8 with 224 votes. Elliott finished second with 149 votes and Guilotti was third with 77 votes.
In October of 2008, Elliott was presented with a Achievement Award by Sports Media Canada joining Canadian writing legends like Milt Dunnell, Scott Young and Ted Reeve, who had coached Elliott's father, also named Bob with the Queen's Golden Gaels football team.
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, with the forward by fellow Kingston native Don Cherry.
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.
Elliott was inducted into the Ottawa-Nepean Canadians Hall of Fame as part of the 40th anniversary celebrations on June 12.
At the 2009 all-star game in St. Louis, Bill Madden, of the New York Daily News, Joe Giuliotti, retired scribe from the Boston Hearld, and Elliott were nominated for the 2010 Spink award.
Elliott does not golf. He does not watch hockey.
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