Bob Elliott (sportswriter)

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Bob Elliott (born September 10, 1949) is a Canadian former sports columnist who focused on baseball. He started his journalism career with the Kingston Whig-Standard and the Ottawa Journal, then joined the Ottawa Citizen in 1978 to cover the Montreal Expos. In 1986 he moved to the Toronto Sun to cover the Toronto Blue Jays. In 2016, he stepped back from daily newspaper work to concentrate on his website, the Canadian Baseball Network, which tracks Canadian baseball players.

Elliott is the author of four books: Hard Ball (1990) about George Bell; The Ultimate Blue Jays Trivia Book (1993); The Northern Game: Baseball The Canadian Way (2005); and a Toronto Blue Jays book in the If These Walls Could Talk series.

He has received several honors for his coverage of baseball, including the Sports Media Canada Career Achievement Award (2008); induction into the Ottawa-Nepean Canadians Hall of Fame (2009) and the Kingston and District Hall of Fame (2013); inclusion in the Okotoks Dawgs Hall of Fame (inaugural class); the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame’s Jack Graney Award (2010); the National Baseball Hall of Fame’s J. G. Taylor Spink Award (2012); the Ontario Baseball Association President’s Award (2012); election to the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame (2015); the Ontario Sports Hall of Fame Brian Williams Media Award (2016); and induction into the Baseball Ontario Hall of Fame (2018). His grandfather, Chaucer Elliott, is a member of the Hockey Hall of Fame.