Skydoom

Blue Jays television announcer John Cerutti was found dead in his hotel room at SkyDome Sunday at the age of 44. Cerutti was due to call the season finale against the New York Yankees at SkyDome, where he had won the first game in the park’s history in 1989. Cerutti was Toronto’s first-round pick in the 1981 draft out of Amherst College, where he was a teammate of former Red Sox GM Dan Duquette. After making his major league debut with the Blue Jays in 1985 and playing there for 6 seasons, then signing with the Detroit Tigers for a season, compiling a lifetime record of 49-43. Cerutti is the second baseball broadcaster in the last 11 years to die in a hotel room in Canada, after Don Drysdale in Montreal in 1993 and is the second broadcaster to die in a hotel room before playing a New York team in the last 7 years, joining Richie Ashburn who died before a Phils-Mets game in 1997. Just an observation.