31 that he shared with fellow Hall of Famer Greg Maddux retired by the Cubs in 2009. “Baseball back then only recognized the absolute best players,” said Jenkins, who had his No. Jenkins never pitched in a World Series, leaving fans devoid of that one big moment to lean back on and remember. “A real crime,” Jenkins says, “that people didn’t value what he did for years.”īut the same can be said for Jenkins, who wasn’t as flashy as Seaver, didn’t have the big strikeouts of Nolan Ryan or multiple ERA titles.

He is upset about how long it took to get a second Canadian – outfielder Larry Walker – inducted, mentioning in perhaps an ironic way that Walker was underappreciated at the time. He is one of just 19 members of the 3,000 strikeout club, a Canadian Baseball Hall of Famer, a Texas Rangers Hall of Famer, and was the first Canadian-born player to be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. Jenkins, who owns a career 284-226 record, has the hardware.

It’s particularly great for Fergie, because I don’t think he ever got much of a first look.” I think it’s cool because pitchers of that era in general are getting a second look and that’s great. It was a bad time for the Cubs, so you get overshadowed by (Tom) Seaver and (Jim) Palmer and other pitchers you were pretty equal to. “He played for mediocre teams (mostly in Chicago and Texas). “There’s something particularly special about it happening now for Fergie because he did have a career that was sort of made to be overshadowed,” said longtime baseball writer and former Athletic scribe Joe Posnanski, author of the upcoming book “Why We Love Baseball.” If it feels long overdue, that may be true, too.

If it feels like Jenkins is getting extra attention now, 40 years after he stopped playing, he is. The Jenkins statue was unveiled outside Wrigley Field in May 2022.

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