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It was the night the Jays won their second World Series and Tom Cheek was on the radio to make sure he "touched them all." In this look back to October 23, 1993, Jerry Howarth remembers asking the late play-by-play man about that moment, now called one of the best baseball radio calls ever.
“He said, ‘When I started to look at the home-run ball and I knew it was gonna clear the wall, I started to look at Joe going down the first-base line jumping up and down,’” Howarth remembered Cheek saying.
“‘I said, ‘Touch ’em all, Joe,’ because I didn’t want him to miss first base.’”
The call is considered one of the greatest in baseball history."
‘Touch ’em all, Joe!’ Memories flow on 30th anniversary of Blue Jays’ World Series win
Speaking of Howarth, I will never forget the Jays' first World Series win the year before, when it was his turn at the mic, but he graciously turned it over to Cheek, who had been there from the beginning, so he could call the last out of the very first Jays' championship. I've always thought of Jerry as being one of the class acts of the baseball broadcast world and that incredible gesture is just one of the reasons. It's stayed with me all these years.
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October 24 will be the anniversary of their first WS Championship. The Touch em all Joe home run is only the second iwalk off home run in World Series history. Bill Mazeroski of the Pittsburgh Pirates did it in the bottom of the ninth inning of game seven in the 1960 Fall Classic.