Jerry Howarth

Jerry Howarth (born March 12, 1946) is an American Canadian former sports commentator, best known as the radio play-by-play voice of the Toronto Blue Jays from 1981 through the 2017 season.

Howarth was then hired as the Assistant General Manager and performed double duty as play-by-play man for the Utah Pros of the short-lived Western Basketball Association.

Howarth was then hired as Group Sales Director by the NBA's Utah Jazz before joining KWMS radio in Salt Lake as the station's sports talk show host.

[6] Cheek's health continued to deteriorate, eventually forcing him to discontinue his broadcasting career after the end of the 2004 Toronto Blue Jays season.

[3] As it became clear in early 2005 that Cheek would not be coming back, Howarth became the play-by-play broadcaster for Blue Jays games at this time and Warren Sawkiw filled in as analyst.

[8] Howarth continued to be the lead voice of the Toronto Blue Jays with Ashby serving as game analyst, until the end of the 2012 season.

[13] Renu Mandhane, chief commissioner of the Ontario Human Rights Commission, supported Howarth's position, and called upon other media outlets to stop using the name in the wake of Cleveland's playoff series.