Jamie Campbell (sportscaster)

[1] His love of baseball began in 1977 when his father took him to a game, sparked by a conversation with Lyman Bostock of the Minnesota Twins.

[1] At age 20, Campbell got a job as librarian and runner for the Hockey Night in Canada archives where he worked with Don Cherry and Ron MacLean.

As well as anchoring Sportsnet's news shows Campbell reported from a variety of events such as the Super Bowl and the Olympics.

[8] He also served as the station's in-studio host for Blue Jays broadcasts and Major League Baseball playoffs.

[3] In 2005, he took over as the play-by-play voice of the Blue Jays for Sportsnet, replacing Faulds after the death of color commentator John Cerutti.

[2] At the 2004 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, Campbell caught the home run hit by David Ortiz, to whom he returned the ball.

[4] In March 2022 he announced on Twitter that he had been diagnosed with chronic lymphocytic leukaemia 14 months earlier, and was receiving treatment.