Tom Cheek (born June 13, 1939 in Pensacola, Florida; died October 9, 2005 at Oldsmar, Florida) had announced baseball games for the Toronto Blue Jays on radio since the team was established in 1977 until 2004. His best known call was perhaps his description of Joe Carter's dramatic World Championship clinching home run in Game 6 of the 1993 World Series when he said "Touch 'em all Joe! You'll never hit a bigger home run in your life!"
Cheek attended Cambridge School of Broadcasting in Boston, Massachusetts and began his career in Plattsburg, New York. He moved to Burlington, Vermont as corporate sales manager and sports director. Since 1980, Cheek's play-by-play partner has been Jerry Howarth. The two of them will usually split time calling the game. They have had colour commentators over the years including Gary Matthews and Warren Sawkiw.
From 1974 to 1976, Cheek was the swing man on Montréal Expos radio broadcasts on television nights. Besides Major League Baseball, Cheek's play-by-play experience also includes baseball, basketball, football, and hockey for the University of Vermont. Cheek has also broadcast college basketball for the Mutual Radio Network. He was also a member of the broadcast team for ABC Sports at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid and 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo.
In 2005, Cheek was nominated for the Ford C. Frick Award.
Cheek announced every single Blue Jays game from the first game on April 7, 1977 until June 3, 2004, when he took two games off following the death of his father - a streak of 4,306 consecutive regular season games and 41 post-season games. Cheek quickly returned to the booth, but was forced to take further time off after undergoing surgery on June 12, 2004 to remove a brain tumor. It seemed he had recovered and would call the Jays games in 2005. But the cancer returned and he had treatment at Mount Sinai Hospital (Toronto) and Toronto Western Hospital. As of September 2005, Cheek's condition had deteriorated and he was reportedly in grave condition. He could no longer speak and was at his home in Florida (he also lived in Toronto as well). He passed away on October 9.