Jamie Campbell (sportscaster)

Jamie Campbell (born May 20, 1967 in Oakville, Ontario) is a Canadian sportscaster with Sportsnet. He is currently the host of Toronto Blue Jays telecasts and previously provided the play-by-play from 2005 to 2009.

Born and raised in Oakville, Ontario, Campbell was a fan of hockey, baseball, and auto racing. He attended many Oakville Blades hockey games where his father was the public address announcer. As a youth he attended Toronto Maple Leafs games at Maple Leaf Gardens and Blue Jays games at Exhibition Stadium.

Campbell estimates that he attended between thirty and thirty-five Blue Jays games per year and liked to sit in right field behind the visiting team's bull-pen in order to try to catch fly balls during batting practice, to talk to the relievers, and to get the best possible vantage point to watch Jesse Barfield. His favourite baseball players were Jesse Barfield, Bob Bailor, George Brett and .

He also idolized Canadian Formula One driver Gilles Villeneuve and later named one of his sons after him.

Campbell played Little League baseball at Wallace Park in Oakville. He attended Oakville Trafalgar High School where he was a teammate and friend of future National Football League placekicker Steve Christie on the football team. In 1986 he went to Ryerson Polytechnic Institute (now Ryerson University) from which he graduated with a Bachelor in Applied Arts in Radio and Television in 1989.

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