Sportsnet’s Jeff Blair has been named the winner of the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame’s 2018 Jack Graney Award.
The award is given out each year to a member of the media who has made significant contributions to baseball in Canada through their life’s work.
Blair hosts The Jeff Blair Show, on Sportsnet 590 The FAN and also serves as one of Sportsnet’s leading baseball analysts. He is a regular contributor to Sportsnet.ca and also co-hosts The Lede Podcast with Stephen Brunt. Blair is also the co-host of Baseball Central alongside Kevin Barker and is a regular contributor to Blue Jays Central.
“Jeff Blair is one of our country’s most respected and authoritative baseball analysts and writers,” said Scott Crawford, the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame’s director of operations, in a release. “Today’s fans know him for the strong insight he provides on his radio show and Baseball Central, but his roots in baseball go back three decades when he began covering the Expos for the Montreal Gazette.
“We’re proud to recognize an analyst and writer of his calibre with this award.”
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Blair has spent close to four decades in sports journalism and has covered multiple Olympics, World Series and Stanley Cup finals. Prior to joining Sportsnet in 2010, he worked for the Winnipeg Free Press, Calgary Herald, Montreal Gazette and The Globe and Mail.
“It’s an honour to be part of a group of people I’ve watched, listened to, and read for a long time – people who have taught me what I know about the sport I love in the country I love,” Blair said. “We’re a small community who have shared planes, pressboxes and, yes, sometimes grudges. But we’re all proud of our sport, and proud to be in the company of Jack Graney. Thanks to the selection committee and board of directors for considering me worthy of this honour.”
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