Bob Elliott

Bob Elliott may refer to:

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Bob Elliott (sportswriter)

Bob Elliott (born September 10, 1949 in Kingston, Ontario) is a Canadian sports columnist who has covered baseball in Canada since the 1978 Home Opener for the Montreal Expos, when he was employed by the Ottawa Citizen. He covered the Expos until 1987, when he moved to Toronto, Ontario and has covered the Toronto Blue Jays since then. As of 2016, he is a columnist for the Toronto Sun.

He was written three books, including Hard Ball about George Bell, in 1990; The Ultimate Blue Jays Trivia Book, in 1993; and The Northern Game: Baseball The Canadian Way, in 2005. Elliott is also the mind behind the Canadian Baseball Network website, which tracks all active Canadian baseball players.

Elliott was awarded the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame's Jack Graney Award on December 17, 2010. His grandfather, Chaucer Elliott, is a member of the Hockey Hall of Fame. On December 6, 2011, he was named recipient of the 2012 J. G. Taylor Spink Award by the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum. On February 4, 2015, Elliott was elected to the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame.

Bob Elliott (politician)

Charles Robert "Bob" Elliott (October 15, 1927 – October 14, 2013) was a municipal and provincial level politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1982 to 1993 sitting with the governing Progressive Conservative caucus.

Science career

Although born in Edmonton, Elliott grew up in Busby, Alberta.

He studied agriculture at the Vermillion School of Agriculture, now Lakeland College, and then at the University of Alberta. After completing his studies with a Ph.D. at the University of Saskatchewan, he began work at the Beaverlodge Research Station. There he developed a new variety of Creeping Red Fescue, a grass that he named Boreal in tribute to the North. He also developed two varieties of clover.

Political career

Bob Elliott served as Mayor of Beaverlodge, Alberta, from 1971 to 1977.

Elliott ran for a seat to the Alberta Legislature for the first time in the 1982 Alberta general election. He won the Grande Prairie electoral district easily, defeating five other candidates to hold it for the governing Progressive Conservatives. Elliot was re-elected to his second term in the 1986 Alberta general election. His majority of votes was reduced, but he still won a solid majority defeating three other candidates.