Full Count: Four Decades of Blue Jays Baseball
NATIONAL BESTSELLER “Blair is lucid, informed and intelligent.... We can appreciate...Blair’s judicious commentary on a team that always seems to be on the wrong side of the baseball gods.”—Philip Marchand,National Post “Full Countis learned and thorough, with a keen eye on engaging readers instead of drowning them in the deluge of the author’s knowledge.... The book manages that rare narrative pull that eludes so much contemporary sports writing.”—Quill & Quire “Full Countis the book Jays fans have been waiting for. Jeff Blair nails the twin goals of any successful author, telling stories loaded with flair and detail and gaining tremendous access to the principals who could shed the most light on the past four decades of baseball in Toronto. Not a Jays diehard? No problem. With tales of boardroom dealings, team-building strategies, and vivid storytelling, Blair, like Joe Carter twenty years before him, touches ’em all.”—Jonah Keri, author of the New York Times bestsellerThe Extra 2%: How Wall Street Strategies Took a Major League Baseball Team from Worst to First