What had been Sportsnet’s Blue Jays on-air expertise doing in 1993?

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Sixteen video games into this magical 2025 post-season experience by the Toronto Blue Jays, and the gamers have change into bigger than life.

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But so too have the women and men on our televisions each night time telling their tales.

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No one is touching Vladdy Guerrero Jr. on the recognition meter nowadays, however Sportsnet’s Buck Martinez might be one of many nearer people when it comes to views.

All that stated, with the Jays a win away from their first World Series title in 32 years, we determined to return in time to that the majority current time baseball owned this metropolis for the month of October and study what in the present day’s Sportsnet on-camera folks had been doing again then.

BUCK MARTINEZ

We’ll begin with the best one. Buck was doing virtually precisely the identical job then that he’s doing in the present day, though with an even bigger profile in in the present day’s sport than he had again in 1993. It was a distinct time then. in fact, with the radio tandem of Tom Cheek and Jerry Howarth proudly owning high billing even over TV, which was within the succesful fingers of Jim Hughson and Martinez.

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DID YOU KNOW? That World Series predated a slightly essential transfer for Martinez. He went from the sales space overlaying the group for which he had been a catcher to the supervisor’s workplace in 2001, changing Jim Fregosi.

DAN SHULMAN

The Blue Jays’ play-by-play announcer from a tv perspective was simply getting his ft moist within the business when the Jays had been profitable their second consecutive title. Shulman was working at The Fan 590 (then 1430) in 1993, engaged on a number of the pregame and many of the postgame exhibits after Blue Jays video games on The Fan.

DID YOU KNOW? Shulman’s first stint because the Blue Jays’ play-by-play announcer on tv started in 1995. He additionally spent a few years calling baseball and school basketball for ESPN.

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HAZEL MAE

The sideline reporter with the fast reflexes to keep away from all these post-game Gatorade showers was holding down a few jobs in 1993, working at each the York University radio station and choosing up some additional money ready tables.

DID YOU KNOW? Mae would use her rising sports activities information as a waitress to have interaction patrons in sports activities speak, which helped when the invoice arrived and the tip quantity was being decided.

CALEB JOSEPH

Joseph was simply seven years previous rising up in Tennessee when the Jays gained their second consecutive World Series.

DID YOU KNOW? Joseph’s MLB profession spanned seven seasons and three groups together with the Jays, however he’s the one rookie catcher in MLB historical past to hit a house run in 5 consecutive video games, doing so with Baltimore in 2014.

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JOE SIDDALL

Windsor-born Siddall was having his personal breakthrough in 1993. He made his Major League debut with the Expos that season.

DID YOU KNOW? Tommy Harper, then hitting coach of the Expos, wasn’t all that complementary when discussing Siddall’s possibilities of staying long run with the group. “He’s a heck of a catcher however he’s going to must be taught to hit to have an effect up right here,” Harper informed a reporter in 1993. For the report, Siddall had a single in his debut and performed components of 4 seasons within the Majors with three groups.

JAMIE CAMPBELL

Campbell, like Shulman, was simply getting his begin within the enterprise working for CBC in Edmonton in 1993. He would transfer on to CJOH in Ottawa earlier than becoming a member of Sportsnet in 1995.

DID YOU KNOW? Campbell would change into one of many Day 1 Sportsnet hires, becoming a member of Daren Millard as co-anchor on the community’s first present, Sportscentral.

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MADISON SHIPMAN

Chances are Shipman doesn’t have many recollections of the 1993 World Series. She was just one 12 months previous on the time. She was born in Houston, Texas, however grew up in Valencia, Calif.

DID YOU KNOW? Shipman is a former SEC participant of the 12 months in softball taking part in for the University of Tennessee from 2011-2014. She led the Volunteers to 2 Women’s College World Series appearances.

KEVIN PILLAR

Pillar was simply 4 years previous when the Jays had been taking down the Phillies within the 1993 World Series.

DID YOU KNOW? Pillar spent the primary six-plus seasons of his MLB profession with the Blue Jays from 2013 to 2019. He thought of retirement after the 2024 season however determined to signal with the Texas Rangers for the present 12 months. He wound up formally saying his retirement on July 2 of this season and has made a pleasant transition to working behind the microphone within the speedy aftermath.

mganter@postmedia.com

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