November 13, 1990 (1/2) - Five years after last appearing on a Cy Young Award ballot, the #BlueJays' Dave Stieb finishes in a fifth-place tie for 1990's top honour, with two third-place votes from 28 BBWAA scribes. It's the mainstream's belated acknowledgement of his return to form in 1988.

November 8, 2023 (redux) (1/3) - Still got Halls of Fame on the brain (I wonder why). Here's the San Jose Sports Hall Of Fame 2023 class (Lorrie Fair, Patrick Marleau, Dave Stieb, Chris Wondolowski) with their official plaques, permanently displayed on the concourse at the SAP Center.

November 8, 2023 [continued] - In summer 2023, we were asked to contribute to Dave Stieb's San Jose Sports Hall of Fame induction video, which played just before his acceptance speech. It's a great clip. Here's our trailer-length edit:📽️ In the "tweet" BELOW, a link to the FULL clip.

November 8, 2023 (1/3) -🚨A picture's worth a thousand-and-thirty-seven words! A #BlueJays legend becomes part of his hometown’s sporting firmament: Dave Stieb is inducted into the San Jose Sports Hall of Fame.⚾️ #SanJoseSportsAuthority

November 7, 2025 (1/2) - Buck Martinez Appreciation Post October 14, 1976: In the biggest game of his career, Buck goes 3-for-4 in G5 of the ALCS (aka the "Chambliss game"). He's also confounded everyone with the pronunciation of his surname. We've all been saying it wrong?🤯

November 7, 2025 (1/2) - Buck Martinez Appreciation Post October 14, 1976: In the biggest game of his career, Buck goes 3-for-4 in G5 of the ALCS (aka the "Chambliss game"). He's also confounded everyone with the pronunciation of his surname. We've all been saying it wrong?🤯

November 7, 1948 -🚨 Future Dave Stieb teammate and #BlueJays icon Buck Martinez is born in Redding, CA.🎂 Playing for Milwaukee, he singled in Stieb’s first home start and win, July 9, 1979. Buck caught Stieb 88 times, to a 3.05 ERA (Stieb's career ERA was 3.44).

November 4, 1982 [P2] - The 1982 Cy Young voting debacle - nicely summed up by Jon Bois' Captain Ahab doc in this clip📽️ - creates a butterfly effect felt even in 2025: Dave Stieb's easier to overlook by Era Committee Hall Of Fame panels without that hardware, isn't he. 1/3

November 4, 1982 [P1] - Oh, goody! Time for this old favourite again. The 1982 AL Cy Young Award vote's in. Milwaukee's Pete Vuckovich wins. The #BlueJays' Dave Stieb's fourth. Look at Pete's K:BB ratio! 1/2

November 3, 2025 (1/3):🚨The @baseballhall.org has released its 2026 Contemporary Era Hall of Fame ballot. Dave Stieb has been overlooked. Carlos Delgado IS on the ballot. Congratulations, #25! Best of luck next month. Following: two charts showing the eight candidates vis-à-vis their peers.

November 3, 2025 (1/3):🚨The @baseballhall.org has released its 2026 Contemporary Era Hall of Fame ballot. Dave Stieb has been overlooked. Carlos Delgado IS on the ballot. Congratulations, #25! Best of luck next month. Following: two charts showing the eight candidates vis-à-vis their peers.

November 3, 2025: The @baseballhall.org's released its 2026 Contempoary Era Hall of Fame ballot. There's a legendary #BlueJays player included, but it's not Dave Stieb. Six hitters, two pitchers - the split we hoped and expected. Results announced December 7. More to come.

November 2, 1982 (1/3) - 🚨The votes are in! Dave Stieb wins The Sporting News' 1982 A.L. Pitcher of the Year award, a huge hit of mainstream recognition for the rapidly improving #BlueJays. Read on... 🧵 🚨

November 2, 2025 - The 2025 Blue Jays - a likeable, great team - lost a marvellous World Series last night. The one of us here who's less partisan, perhaps a bit angrier about the org's legacy-ignorant shenanigans, began wondering whether there was a curse. Maybe it's real. #CurseOf37

November 1, 2025 (1/2) - Tone deaf move by the Blue Jays to give Jack Morris the first pitch tonight (alongside Paul Molitor, mind). Never mind the career-long feud with Dave Stieb. Never mind the fact Stieb didn't throw a pitch this month. Jack Morris is just a disappointing human.

October 30, 1984 (1/3) - Cy Young votes are in! Dave Stieb's modern-day case: 7.9 bWAR (1st; Blyleven 7.2) 5.6 WAA (1st; Blyleven 5.1) 48.45 RE24 (1st; Hernandez 38.28) 146 ERA+ (1st; Blyleven 144) 267 IP (1st; Hough 266) 2.83 ERA (2nd; Boddicker 2.79) He finishes... seventh. With one vote.

October 28, 1985 (1/2) - 🚨 "Dave Stieb, you're going to Disneyland!" (Okay, they probably all went after winning the World Series in 1992, but here he is after the ALCS defeat, winding down with his family...) 🚨

October 26, 1992 [P2]: Tom Cheek and Jerry Howarth emcee the rally inside SkyDome, with 40-odd #BlueJays briefly taking the mic. Most keep it pretty basic. Dave Stieb’s bottled a lot of thoughts in 14 years with Toronto. He’s not an over-sharer. 🚨Today, though, he lets it all out.📽️

October 26, 1992 [P1]: The championship parade! The icing on every pro athlete's bucket list cake. The #BlueJays ride from the Royal York to SkyDome via Wellington and Peter. Dave Stieb rides with the Grubers. 🚨VIDEO!📽️ That's BOTH OF US hustling across the screen @ 0:24.

October 25, 1998 (1/3) - 🚨 #Stieb2000! Dave Stieb, age 41, lets it be known through his agent that his aim is to be a four-decade player. How did it start and how did it end? Read on... 🧵 🚨

October 24, 1992 [Last-night-in-Dave-Stieb-history print edition] (1/3) - The game ended late at 12:51 a.m. EST. Newspaper print rooms would run hot through the wee hours. Throughout Canada, people spilled onto streets. In Atlanta's visitors' clubhouse, the #BlueJays rejoiced.

October 24, 1992 (P3) - 🚨 "Congratulations, Dave Stieb. You're a World Series champion!" 🚨 Timlin to Carter, to Stieb (injured for the playoffs) running out onto the field in those flat-soled running shoes. What could do wrong... (next tweet, please...)

October 24, 1992 (P2) - 🚨 "I sensed the end was near here. I gotta be the first one out there." - Dave Stieb, as the #BlueJays win their first World Series, taking down Atlanta in 6 games. Watch and read on... 🧵 🚨

October 24, 1992 (P1) - 🚨 Dave Stieb and the #BlueJays win their 1st World Series, Timlin-to-Carter style! Watch Part 1 below (with the man in the white running shoes leading the charge onto the field)... 📽 🚨

October 24, 2025 (1/2) - Timing: it's everything. There're only two pitchers in #BlueJays history to make the jump from the June amateur draft to their MLB careers the very next season. One is Dave Stieb. The other starts Game One of the 2025 World Series tonight.

October 23, 1992 (1/2) - It's the off-day between games five and six of the 1992 #WorldSeries. As the caravan returns to Atlanta, national media - including columnists George Vecsey and Tom Verducci - tell a large U.S. readership exactly where Dave Stieb fits into the narrative.

October 22, 1985 (P2) - 🚨 The only winning manager, Bobby Cox, in #BlueJays history takes a walk...back home to Atlanta. Here's the new home town coverage of the shocking (to Stieb and team) news... 🧵 🚨

October 22, 1985 (P1) - 🚨 #BlueJays Nation is rocked by the news that manager Bobby Cox is leaving the organization after leading them to their 1st division title. This is on top of the heartbreak 5 days earlier of losing ALCS Game 7 to the Royals. Read on... 🧵 🚨

October 22, 1985 (1/2) - In preparing one of the pieces on Dave Stieb's midwestern college roots to appear sporadically throughout the '80s, the Evansville (IN) Courier must've anticipated a different 1985 ALCS outcome: this would've run during the Blue Jays' World Series debut.

October 21, 1992 - "I've been part of it for a long time. When we do win I will get a ring, and that will signify a lot more than just 1992." An injured Dave Stieb can only watch Toronto's first #WorldSeries from the dugout bench. U.S. papers interview the "living symbol of [Blue Jays] history."

⚾️ #StiebMatchUpMondays! ⚾️ A new feature where *you*, #StiebNation, can submit your requests! How did Dave Stieb perform head-to-head vs the best (or just your personal fav)? Let's look at a Minnesota Twins @BaseballHall Of Famer, *Kirby Puckett*! Read on... 🧵

October 17-20, 1988 (1/2) - Dave Stieb’s August feud with Jimy Williams must’ve caught #Phillies GM Lee Thomas’ eye, rekindling a long-running pursuit of Stieb from the City of Brotherly Love. Early ‘80s Phils looked to cap a contender with Stieb; late ‘80s Phils are rebuilding.

October 19, 1985 (1/2) - Among the postmortems for the 1985 ALCS loss is a cautionary tale familiar to anyone familiar with the present-day #BlueJays' perpetual crisis: when to pull your starter. The Ottawa Citizen airs possibly the best analysis of the entire collapse sequence.

October 18, 1986 (1/3) - 🚨 Hey, Dave Stieb gets some good reviews for his biography, "Tomorrow, I'll Be Perfect," during his cross-country book tour. Read them in the 🧵... 🚨

October 16, 1985 [print edition] (P1) - Bobby Cox and Dave Stieb begin the long walk into winter. The 1985 ALCS is lost. “A nightmare. It all happened in slow motion. All our hopes and dreams of that season, and the past five years, just…gone. It was devastating.” - Stieb (1994)

October 16, 1985 [P3] - “Look out for the wind!" - Costas.🚨 Kubek/Costas speak of The Ex's nasty rightfield wind corridor all series. It's a major factor in G7, lifting Jim Sundberg's bases-loaded fly [Stieb loads via walk-HBP-walk] to LCS glory. The Jays fade out, losing G7 6-2.

October 16, 1985 [P2] - Stieb's strong through five, touched for single runs off a bunt 'n' a bloop, then a windblown homer. His breaking pitches are snapping, KC's not barrelling up, his strike-to-ball ratio suggests another good start.🚨 Jays’ve closed to 2-1 KC after five.

October 16, 1985 [P1] - The heartwreck of a generation: the #BlueJays' '85 ALCS loss to Kansas City.🚨 Bobby Cox goes to Dave Stieb on three days' rest for a second straight start, but Jays bats're in a fatal slump, slashing .196/.229/.304 when he's in for Games Four and Seven.

October 16, 1985 [Pregame] (1/2) - History lesson: Dave Stieb's workload in his first seven MLB seasons (1979-85: 222 games) was huge. Since World War II, of ANY pitcher in their first 222 games, Stieb faced MORE batters, and pitched the FOURTH-MOST innings. Load management?

October 15, 1985 (1/3) - The #BlueJays lose Games Five and Six 2-0 and 5-3. Kansas City's knotted the '85 ALCS at three. Although they clearly both thought he'd next be pitching in the World Series opener, Bobby Cox has no choice but to start Dave Stieb tomorrow. Game Seven.

October 14, 1986 (1/2) - 🚨 Hey look, it's a young(er) Steve Simmons writing a reasonably positive review (compared to most of the day) of Dave Stieb's book, "Tomorrow, I'll Be Perfect". And then he attends Stieb's book tour stop at The Keg in Calgary. Read on... 🧵 🚨

October 14, 1992 (1/3): The Blue Jays are World Series-bound! "Dave Stieb just struck out Jim Sundberg...Bill Madlock got picked off first base...Ernie Whitt threw out Rickey Henderson trying to steal...Tom Candiotti lost his stage fright and even threw his knuckleball..." - Toronto Star

October 12, 1985 [print ed.] (1/3) - Practically unhittable again - if also wild - Dave Stieb bobs and weaves through the KC lineup and a jeering partisan crowd. He allows one run. Al Oliver's sizzling ninth-inning double lifts the #BlueJays to the brink of a World Series berth.

October 12, 1985 (P3) -🚨 Dave Stieb & the #BlueJays are one win away from the World Series (in the now best-of-7 format 🤬). After a pitchers' duel between Stieb & Charlie Leibrandt, Al Oliver's caps a 9th-inning rally from 1-0 down. Stieb's series ERA is 0.61 over 14.1 IP. 🚨

October 12, 1985 (P2) - 🚨 Dave Stieb pushes the K.C. Royals to the brink of elimination with a Game 4 win; the first ALCS with a best-of-7 format 🤬. Stieb's control is off a bit (5 BBs + 2 IBBs to Brett), but allows only 1 run in 6.2IP (a 0.61 ERA over 14.2IP in the series). 🚨

October 12, 1985 (P1) - 🚨 On three days' rest, Dave Stieb leads the #BlueJays to a win vs. Kansas City, and a 3-1 ALCS series lead. He's practically unhittable again - a disputed play at first is the only #Royals hit through five; one of only two all game🤯. Watch on... 🚨

October 8-16, 1985: 🚨 Airing during the 1985 ALCS, youth counsellor Dave Stieb steps away from his regular job with the Blue Jays to help turn North America's youth away from the demons of temptation. 📽️ #DaveStiebSays #SayNoToDrugs #PSA #Drugs 💉💊

October 11-13, 1991 (1/3) - The #BlueJays crash out of the ‘91 ALCS with three straight SkyDome losses to Minnesota. It’s a bleak, dispiriting week. Dave Stieb, injured since May, hovers on the periphery: throwing out G5’s ceremonial first pitch; interviewed for CTV’s W5 program.

October 11, 1986 (1/2) - 🚨 Dave Stieb's 18-day book tour rolls into Kingston. His "Tomorrow, I'll Be Perfect" biography is selling well across Canada, even after a challenging 1986... 🚨

October 11, 1985 (1/3) - Days later, Dave Stieb's brilliant G1 start's still drawing ink. We'll tell you it remains the best start in #BlueJays' 71-game playoff history. By Game Score and RE24, it is. The Toronto top 10's in the next tweet: Marco Estrada, meet Trey Yesavage.