Ferguson "Fergie" Jenkins is a Canadian former MLB pitcher who was inducted in the Hall of Fame in 1991. Jenkins pitched for the Philadelphia Phillies, Chicago Cubs, Texas Rangers, and Boston Red Sox, but the majority of his career with the Chicago Cubs. Over his 18 professional seasons, Jenkins was named to 3 MLB All-Star teams, won the Cy Young Award in 1971 and his number 31 was retired by the Chicago Cubs. Jenkins was the first Canadian and Cubs pitcher to win a Cy Young Award, and was a 20-game winner for seven seasons, including six consecutive seasons for the Cubs.
Jenkins also played basketball in the off-season for the Harlem Globetrotters from 1967 to 1969, and pitched two seasons in Canada for the minor league London Majors following his major league career. Jenkins became the first Canadian to be inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1991; he remained the only one until Larry Walker's election in 2020
