Ferguson Arthur "Fergie" Jenkins CM (born December 13, 1942) is a Canadian former professional
baseball
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pitcher
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Major League Baseball
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(MLB) from 1965 to 1983 for the
Philadelphia Phillies
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,
Chicago Cubs
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Boston Red Sox
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.
Jenkins played the most of his career for the Cubs. He was a
National League
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(NL) and Cubs
All-Star
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for three seasons, and in 1971, he was the first Canadian and Cubs pitcher to win a
Cy Young Award
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. He was a 20-game winner for seven seasons, including six consecutive seasons for the Cubs. He was the NL leader in wins, in 1971, and the
American League
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(AL) leader in wins, in 1974. Jenkins was also the NL leader in
complete game
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s in 1967, 1970, and 1971, and the AL leader in complete games in 1974. He led the NL in
strikeouts
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in 1969 and had over 3,000 strikeouts during his career. His 284 victories are the most by a black pitcher in major league history.
Jenkins played
basketball
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in the off-season for the
Harlem Globetrotters
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from 1967 to 1969, and pitched two seasons in Canada for the
minor league
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London Majors following his major league career. Jenkins became the first Canadian to be inducted into the
National Baseball Hall of Fame
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in
1991
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; he remained the only one until
Larry Walker
Larry Kenneth Robert Walker (born December 1, 1966) is a Canadian former professional baseball right fielder. During his 17-year Major League Baseball (MLB) career, he played with the Montreal Expos, Colorado Rockies, and St. Louis Cardinals. I ...
's election in
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University of Windsor
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. Retrieved November 5, 2017. His father, a chef and
chauffeur
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, was the son of immigrants from
Barbados
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, while his mother was a descendant of captive Africans enslaved in America, who escaped through the
Underground Railroad
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before settling in
Southwestern Ontario
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. Both of his parents were good athletes; his father was an
amateur boxer
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and semi-professional
baseball
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track and field
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,
ice hockey
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, and basketball in his school years, lettering five times. When he began playing bantam baseball in his teens, he started out as a
first baseman
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. He honed his pitching skills by throwing pieces of coal from a local coal yard, aiming at either an open ice chute or the gaps of passing
boxcar
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s. He was also encouraged to continue working on his pitching by Gene Dziadura, a former
shortstop
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in the
Chicago Cubs
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minor league system, and a
Philadelphia Phillies
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scout. Many training sessions involving the two followed, until Jenkins graduated from high school.
Professional baseball
MLB career
Early seasons
In 1962, Jenkins was signed by Philadelphia Phillies scout Tony Lucadello. Jenkins made his major-league debut as a 22-year-old in 1965, as a
relief pitcher
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. He was traded the following year to the Chicago Cubs, along with Adolfo Phillips and John Herrnstein, for pitchers Larry Jackson and Bob Buhl. Jenkins would become one of the best pitchers in the majors. In his first full year as a starter for the Cubs (1967), Jenkins recorded 20 wins while posting a 2.80
ERA
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and 236 strikeouts. He finished tied for second in the Cy Young Award voting, following Mike McCormick of the
San Francisco Giants
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. He was also selected for the
All-Star Game
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for the first time that season.
The following year his numbers improved; once again he won 20 games, his ERA dropped to 2.63 and his strikeout total increased to 260. Jenkins established a reputation for achieving his pitching feats and his statistics while spending most of his career pitching in a "hitter's ballpark"—
Wrigley Field
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in Chicago. Furthermore, in 1968, Jenkins lost five of his starts in 1–0 ball games.
1971 season
Jenkins had his best season in 1971. On April 6, 1971, Jenkins started the Cubs' opening-day game. The Cubs defeated the
St. Louis Cardinals
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2–1 in 10 innings at Wrigley Field. Jenkins pitched the complete game for the Cubs, and Billy Williams hit a home run in the final inning for the victory. On September 1, 1971, Jenkins threw another complete game against the
Montreal Expos
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and hit two home runs. The Cubs won the game 5–2. He was named NL Player of the Month (for the only time in his career) in July, with a 6–1 record, a 2.14 ERA, and 49 strikeouts.
That season, Jenkins threw a complete game in 30 of 39 starts and received a decision in 37 of them, finishing with a 24–13 record (.649). He walked only 37 batters versus 263 strikeouts across 325 innings. He played in the
All-Star Game
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and finished seventh in MVP voting. Jenkins also posted a .478 slugging percentage, hitting six home runs and driving in 20 runs in just 115 at-bats.
Jenkins won the 1971 NL
Cy Young Award
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. Jenkins was the first Cubs pitcher and the first Canadian to win the Cy Young Award (
Quebec
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New York Mets
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pitcher
Tom Seaver
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, but Jenkins pitched in hitter-friendly Wrigley Field and Seaver worked in pitcher-friendly
Shea Stadium
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Later seasons
In 1972, Jenkins completed his sixth consecutive season with 20 or more wins. By the middle of the following season, he expressed that he did not feel like playing baseball anymore. He finished the season, but registered a 14–16 win–loss record.
Jenkins was traded from the Cubs to the Texas Rangers for Bill Madlock and Vic Harris on October 25, 1973. Texas manager Billy Martin was pleased with the trade, describing Jenkins as a workhorse and a winner. In 1974, Jenkins achieved a personal best 25 wins during the season, setting a Rangers franchise record which still stands. He finished second in
Cy Young Award
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voting for the second time in his career behind Catfish Hunter in a very close vote (90 points to Jenkins's 75); surprisingly, Jenkins actually finished ahead of Hunter in
MVP
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voting (118 points to Hunter's 107), and his fifth-place finish on the MVP leader-board was the highest of his career. He was named the American League Comeback Player of the Year by ''
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''.
Jenkins achieved his 250th win against the
Oakland Athletics
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on May 23, 1980. Later that year, during a customs search in
Toronto
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, Jenkins was found possessing 3.0 grams
cocaine
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, 2.2 grams
hashish
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, and 1.75 grams
marijuana
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. In response, on September 8,
Commissioner
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Bowie Kuhn suspended him indefinitely. However, Jenkins' suspension lasted only two weeks before, in an unprecedented action, an independent arbiter, Raymond Goetz, overturned the suspension and reinstated him and he returned to the league. Eventually, when he went to trial, the judge gave him an absolute discharge for lack of some evidence. Jenkins was not punished further by MLB for the incident, as he remained active until his retirement following the 1983 season. It has been suggested that this incident delayed his induction into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
Canadian baseball
Minor league
Jenkins continued playing professional baseball in Canada after retiring from MLB in 1983 and pitched two seasons for the London Majors, a minor league team of the Intercounty Major Baseball League, operating in
London, Ontario
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.
Post-baseball
Jenkins ran for the
Ontario Liberal Party
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in the
1985 Ontario general election
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Jenkins led the league in wins twice (1971, 1974), fewest walks per 9 innings five times,
complete game
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s nine times, and
home run
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s allowed seven times. He led the league in strikeouts once (1969, with 273). His streak of six straight seasons with 20 or more wins (1967–1972) is the longest streak in the major leagues since
Warren Spahn
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performed the feat between 1956 and 1961.
Jenkins, fellow Cub Greg Maddux,
Curt Schilling
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, and Pedro MartÃnez are the only major league pitchers to ever record more than 3,000
strikeout
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s with fewer than 1,000 walks. Only Robin Roberts and
Jamie Moyer
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allowed more home runs over a career than Jenkins. Jenkins achieved his 3,000th strikeout on May 25, 1982, against Garry Templeton.
As a hitter, Jenkins posted a .165
batting average
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Cricket
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home runs
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fielding percentage
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.
Jenkins is one of the Black Aces, black pitchers with at least 20 wins in a single MLB season.
Honours and awards
In 1974, Jenkins, then with the Texas Rangers, became the first baseball player to win the Lou Marsh Trophy, an award given annually to Canada's top athlete. He was also named the ''
Canadian Press
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'' male athlete of the year four times (1967, 1968, 1971, and 1974).
In 1987, Jenkins was awarded the
Order of Sport
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, marking his induction into
Canada's Sports Hall of Fame
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. Jenkins was inducted into the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame in 1987, and in 1991, became the first Canadian ever elected to the
Baseball Hall of Fame
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Ontario Sports Hall of Fame
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in 1995, and was inducted onto
Canada's Walk of Fame
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in 2001. He was appointed the commissioner of the now-defunct Canadian Baseball League in 2003; the league's Jenkins Cup went missing when the league folded and has been missing ever since. He was inducted into the
Texas Rangers Hall of Fame
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in 2004. In 2011, the Ontario Sports Hall of Fame created the Ferguson Jenkins Heritage Award in his honour to commemorate those one-of-a-kind events or special moments in time that so embellish the long history of sports in Ontario.
On December 17, 1979, he was made a Member of the
Order of Canada
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for being "Canada's best-known major-league baseball player". Governor General
Michaëlle Jean
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officiated at his investiture into the Order, which finally occurred on May 4, 2007, more than 27 years after he was appointed. On May 3, 2009, the Cubs retired jersey number 31 in honor of both Jenkins and Greg Maddux. On December 13, 2010,
Canada Post
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announced Jenkins would be honoured in Canada with his own postage stamp. The stamp was issued on February 1, 2011, to commemorate
Black History Month
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. On May 20, 2022, Jenkins was honored with a statue outside Wrigley Field.
Personal life
Jenkins had three daughters with his first wife, Kathy, whom he divorced in 1987.
Jenkins had one child, a daughter named Samantha, with his second wife, Maryanne. In December 1990, Maryanne broke her neck in a car accident near their ranch in
Guthrie, Oklahoma
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. She died from pneumonia in January 1991.
In December 1992, Jenkins' girlfriend, Cynthia Takieddine, and Jenkins' three-year-old daughter, Samantha Jenkins, died of
carbon monoxide poisoning
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in her car near Perry, Oklahoma. It was ruled a murder-suicide although Takieddine's motives were not clear in the suicide note. It did say she loved Samantha and could not bear to leave her.
List of Major League Baseball annual wins leaders
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List of Major League Baseball career strikeout leaders
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