This Saturday will be a big day at Fergie Jenkins Field. The Chatham-Kent Barnstormers IBL team will honour one of Chatham’s favourite sons. It will be Fergie Jenkins Day, with the Barnstormers ...

Fergie Jenkins’s daughters, Kim, Delores and Kelly, listen to speaker Chris Dziadura during the Fergie Jenkins statue dedication ceremony at the Chatham-Kent Civic Centre in Chatham Saturday.

Jenkins credits the Municipality of Chatham-Kent, led by Mayor Darrin Canniff, for bringing the replica sculpture to Chatham-Kent. Canniff, who attended the unveiling at Wrigley Field, said, “During ...

Jenkins credits the Municipality of Chatham-Kent, led by Mayor Darrin Canniff, for bringing the replica sculpture to Chatham-Kent. Canniff, who attended the unveiling at Wrigley Field, said, “During ...

(Ellwood Shreve/Chatham Daily News)jpg, CD, apsmc Fergie Jenkins not only earned a legion of fans during his Hall of Fame career as a baseball pitcher, he also earned the respect and admiration of ...

Fergie Jenkins was hard not to notice. It was that way all through his years in Chatham’s minor baseball program, where he pitched, fielded, played first base and batted; whatever.

Fergie Jenkins, the first Canadian player to be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame, is being honoured with a statue in his hometown of Chatham, Ont.