Fergie Jenkins
Baseball Player
Ferguson Arthur “Fergie” Jenkins was a right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball and he is considered to be the anchor of the 13 Black Aces, a book written about black baseball players who have won at least 20 Major League Baseball games in a single season. A highly versatile athlete, he also played as a member of the Harlem Globetrotters.
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Biography
Canada has never been known as an importer of baseball talent, but then Fergie Jenkins never really did things in a customary fashion. Over his 19-year career, the big hurler from Ontario proved to be a durable commodity, retiring with 267 complete games and 49 shutouts. He also holds the 9th-highest strikeout total in history (3,192) and was the National League Cy Young Award winner in 1971.
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"Mental attitude and concentration are the keys to pitching."