Dave Perkins

David Perkins

• School Ryerson University

• Born 1953 in Midland, ON CAN

Biographical Information

Dave Perkins has been a long-time baseball writer for the Toronto Star. While born in Midland, ON, he moved to Toronto, ON as a young child and studied journalism at Ryerson University (now Toronto Metropolitan University). While still a student, he secured credentials from Major League Baseball to interview Canadian pitcher Dave Pagan of Nipawin, SK, then a rookie for the New York Yankees; he also managed to get interviews from manager Ralph Houk and catcher Thurman Munson for that interview, which was published in the Toronto Sun and a career was born: that same year he was hired by the Toronto Globe and Mail.

Over the years, he worked for all three of Toronto's major newspapers, the Globe and Mail, the Sun and the Star. It was for the latter that he covered the expansion Toronto Blue Jays' arrival in the American League in 1977. He was the Blue Jays beat writer for a number of years, then was the paper's principal baseball columnist when the Jays won their two World Series titles in the early 1990s. He became the paper's sports editor after the second win in 1993, hiring Richard Griffin to take his place as the paper's main baseball columnist. He retired from the paper in 2013, but continued to work as a free-lance columnist after that while also making appearances on sports radio. He published his memoirs in 2016.

He was honored with the Jack Graney Award from the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame in 2024.

Related Sites

• Announcement from the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame