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St. Marys \u2013 Jerry Howarth, the longtime radio voice of the Toronto Blue Jays, has been named the winner of the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame\u2019s 2012 Jack Graney Award and will be presented with the award prior to the Toronto Blue Jays game on Sunday, August 11.<\/p>\n
The St. Marys, Ont.-based shrine presents this award to a member of the media who has made significant contributions to baseball in Canada through their life\u2019s work.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am very honoured to be named the Jack Graney Award winner for 2012 joining a long list of notables including the gentleman who brought me to Toronto, Len Bramson, and the other gentleman I worked with in the radio booth for years in Tom Cheek. That makes this award particularly special for me.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cJerry Howarth is the voice of summer for thousands of Canadians,\u201d said Scott Crawford, the Hall\u2019s Director of Operations. \u201cIn his 33 seasons and over 5000 games\u00a0on Blue Jays\u2019 airwaves, he has set the standard for play-by-play commentators in our country. Not only is Jerry Howarth a great broadcaster, he\u2019s an outstanding citizen who does a lot for his community. I can\u2019t think of anyone more deserving of this honour.\u201d<\/p>\n
Born in 1946 in York, Pennsylvania, Howarth grew up in San Francisco. After graduating with a degree in Economics from the University of Santa Clara, he served as an officer in the U.S. army, V Corps Headquarters, in Frankfurt, Germany from 1968 to 1970.<\/p>\n
When he returned to the U.S., he attended Hastings Law School at the University of California in downtown San Francisco, where he met his wife, Mary. Howarth began broadcasting with the Triple-A Tacoma Twins in 1974, before assuming radio play-by-play duties for the Triple-A Salt Lake City Gulls in 1976.<\/p>\n
It was while with the Gulls that he first applied for a radio job with the Blue Jays in 1977. The Jays opted to hire Tom Cheek and Hall of Fame pitcher Early Wynn, but they told Howarth to stay in touch.<\/p>\n
Howarth\u2019s big break came when Gulls\u2019 manager Jimy Williams was hired by the Blue Jays in 1980 and put in a good word for Howarth with the franchise brass. With that endorsement, Howarth was brought in to work three radio broadcasts for the club in 1980 and 20 more the following campaign, before being hired full-time in 1982.<\/p>\n
For 23 seasons, Howarth teamed with Tom Cheek (2001 Jack Graney Award winner and 2013 Inductee), on Blue Jays radio broadcasts. During that period, he watched the team evolve into an American League East powerhouse. Howarth was in the booth for all five of the Jays\u2019 division titles between 1985 and 1993, as well as the team\u2019s two World Series triumphs in 1992 and 1993.<\/p>\n
For more than three decades, Howarth has been masterfully painting a picture of what\u2019s transpiring on the field for Blue Jays\u2019 radio listeners. His broadcasts are sprinkled with trademark catch phrases like \u201cThe Blue Jays are in flight!\u201d \u2013 a phrase he uses when the Jays score their first run in a game \u2013 and \u201cAnd there she goes!\u201d \u2013 his popular home run call.<\/p>\n
Howarth, who became a Canadian citizen in 1994, resides in Toronto with his wife, Mary. He has two grown sons, Ben and Joe, and is the junior varsity basketball coach at Etobicoke Collegiate High School in Toronto. He was inducted into the Etobicoke Sports Hall of Fame in 2000 and is active in several charities, including the Special Olympics.<\/p>\n
N\u00e9 \u00e0 St Thomas (Ontario), Jack Graney \u00e9tait le premier frappeur des Indians de Cleveland. Sa carri\u00e8re dans les Majeures se r\u00e9sume en plusieurs premi\u00e8res : il a \u00e9t\u00e9 le premier frappeur \u00e0 affronter Babe Ruth des Red Sox de Boston au monticule le 11 juillet 1914 et le premier \u00e0 porter un num\u00e9ro sur son uniforme le 26 juin 1916. Lorsqu\u2019il a accroch\u00e9 ses crampons, Graney est devenu le premier ancien joueur \u00e0 faire le saut sur la galerie de presse en tant que descripteur \u00e0 la radio pour les Indians. Il a occup\u00e9 ce poste de 1932 \u00e0 1953.<\/em><\/p>\n Laur\u00e9ats pr\u00e9c\u00e9dents :<\/strong><\/p>\n 1987 \u2013 Neil MacCarl \u2013 Toronto Star<\/p>\n 1988 \u2013 Milt Dunnell \u2013 Toronto Star<\/p>\n 1990 \u2013 Austin \u201cDink\u201d Carroll \u2013 Montreal Gazette<\/p>\n 1991 \u2013 Joe Crysdale & Hal Kelly \u2013 CKEY<\/p>\n 1996 \u2013 Dave Van Horne \u2013 Expos de Montr\u00e9al<\/p>\n 2001 \u2013 Tom Cheek \u2013 Toronto Blue Jays<\/p>\n 2002 \u2013 Ernie Harwell \u2013 Tigers de D\u00e9troit<\/p>\n 2003 \u2013 Allan Simpson \u2013 Baseball America<\/p>\n 2004 \u2013 Jacques Doucet \u2013 Expos de Montr\u00e9al<\/p>\n 2005 \u2013 Len Bramson \u2013 TBS Sports<\/p>\n 2009 \u2013 Ian MacDonald \u2013 Montreal Gazette<\/p>\n 2010 \u2013 Bob Elliott \u2013 Sun Media & canadianbaseballnetwork.com<\/p>\n 2011 \u2013 W.P. Kinsella \u2013 Auteur \u00ab Shoeless Joe \u00bb adapt\u00e9 du \u00ab Champ des r\u00eaves \u00bb.<\/p>\n 2012 \u2013 Jerry Howarth \u2013Toronto Blue Jays<\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" St. Marys \u2013 Jerry Howarth, the longtime radio voice of the Toronto Blue Jays, has been named the winner of the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame\u2019s 2012 Jack Graney Award and will be presented with the award prior to the Toronto Blue Jays game on Sunday, August 11. The St. Marys, Ont.-based shrine presents this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"current":[],"class_list":["post-11518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n