We moved back to Toronto in 1987 and noticed how much the city had changed.

Everywhere we went there was a radio. You got invited to dinner, there was a radio playing alongside your conversation and food. You went to a summer BBQ, it wasn’t music playing by the pool, it was Tom Cheek and Jerry Howarth bringing you baseball. And on the dock at someone’s cottage, the sound was of motorboats roaring but also of Tom and Jerry and Blue Jays baseball.

The truth was: This was a summer of love in Toronto, a summer you couldn’t help but fall in love with baseball and your Blue Jays team for the very first time. Everybody talked a good game and everywhere you went it was paramount to talk about what went on. Last night’s game. Tomorrow’s game. What’s up this weekend? Who’s up, who’s pitching? And

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