OTTAWA (AP) — Baseball Hall of Famer Ferguson Jenkins is getting his own stamp for his 68th birthday.
The pitcher watched on Monday as Canada Post
conducted a print run of stamps bearing his image that will commemorate Black
History month in February.
He is the only Canadian inducted into Cooperstown,
compiling a 3.34 ERA and 284-226 record over 19 seasons with the Phillies,
Cubs, Rangers and Red Sox.
The stamp depicts a young Jenkins on the pitcher's
mound with the Cubs, set behind a photo of Jenkins on the Canadian Walk of Fame
in Toronto in 2001.
Jenkins said the stamp provides a bookend to a
major league career in which his image was appeared on a baseball card in 1965.
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2010 The Associated Press.
(AP
Photo/The Canadian Press, Sean Kilpatrick)
