BEST ANNOUNCER IN BASEBALL HISTORY

Best announcer in baseball history is Tom Cheek, who was the Toronto Blue

Jays radio announcer from their first ever game in Blue Jays history

(April 7Th, 1977) until June 3Rd, 2004 without missing a game (4306

consecutive games) and he only missed his first game because he had a

brain tumor and he did do some more announcing after but not a lot. With

his final appearance opening day 2005 in Tampa Bay where he lived during

the off-season along with his final days with his wife and family and he

made his mark with signature calls like George Bell’s catch to win the AL

east in ’85 and his most famous call ever "touch em' all Joe!" that was so

good that it replaced the TV announcers to go with the video clip. One of

the saddest things is that he only lived just over a year longer after his

brain tumor and the Blue Jays announce team has never been the same since

he left the booth and his streak of games called is honored at the Roger

Center. Since then he has been a finalist for the Baseball hall of fame

and it has been voted on by the people and he is the run away vote getter

over the years including the votes (over 60% of all votes through

facebook) he got this year to give him a another chance to get into the

hall for next year but the committee who does the final vote for the

person to get into the hall has over looked him to this point. He was the

voice of the Blue Jays for 28 seasons and I really am sad that he is gone

and can not believe it has already been 5 years since he passed away and

this is time for the Toronto Blue Jays to have rep in the hall and the

right person to be the face of the Blue Jays is the voice of the Toronto

Blue Jays Tom Cheek, who is the best announcer I have ever heard.

Thanks for reading,

Tom Mehegan