Black Athletes Ferguson Jenkins

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Sports; Baseball

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How Ferguson Jenkins reached the pinnacle of baseball. Ferguson Jenkins Junior, now popularly known as Fergie, is the only Canadian to be inducted into the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame, and he did so by turning the tables on the history of racism in North America. His father’s ancestors immigrated to Canada from Barbados. His mother’s lineage traces back to the Underground Railroad, where they travelled up through Kentucky, and then Ohio, before making their way up to Ontario to escape the horrors and injustices of the slave trade.

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canadasports150.ca

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http://canadasports150.ca/en/black-athletes/ferguson-jenkins/125

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