Can someone please give me an example of an infuential CANADIAN baseball player? Helped to change the game...?

Question

Need an answer to this question VERY badly. Thanks to anyone in advance for their help! :)

Answer 1

Larry Walker; actual power hitter and fair outfielder.

Answer 2

Not many people have changed the game, Cap Anson and Babe Ruth were American and there was no color or nationality barrier against Canadians like there was for Jackie Robinson or Roberto Clemente, so I think you should go with the first great Canadian player, Ferguson Jenkins, a pitcher known as a great ballplayer rather than just a great Canadian ballplayer and the first Canadian in the baseball Hall of Fame.

Answer 3

First Canadian born player in MLB

Bill Phillips 1879 Cleveland Blues



MVP

(NL) Larry Walker, Colorado Rockies (1997)

(AL) Justin Morneau, Minnesota Twins (2006)

Answer 4

Seattle SP Eric Bedard may be a Canadian. He played for their national team in the World Baseball Classic. But I have to agree with the others in regard to hitters. You should idolize Larry Walker and Justin Morneau.

Answer 5

This isn't exactly a name, but more of a circumstance.



Before Jackie Robinson broke into the Majors, I am pretty sure he was playing up in Montreal. Perhaps, with a bit of research, you may find that some Canadian up there had a significant influence on Jackie, thus on the game itself.



It's a stretch, but...

Answer 6

Ferguson Jenkins - first Canadian born player in the Hall of Fame. However, i don't know if you could really say any Canadian player has "changed the game" simply because they weren't really in the game until the last 30-40 years, and even then, not in real strong numbers.

Answer 7

Once you win an league MVP award, I think you've changed the game - therefore I'd nominate either Larry Walker or Justin Morneau.

Answer 8

Since the end of the Nineteenth Century, there haven't been many ball players of any nationality that have changed the game; Ruth, Robinson, Flood, Wills, the Black Sox, spit ballers, none of them Canadian as far as I know. For just quality, I like Fergie Jenkins, one really good pitcher...

Answer 9

Ryan Dempster and Matt Stairs! Well, maybe neither changed the game, but Dempster is having a good year so far and Stairs is still going strong at 40.

Answer 10

Justin Morneau, he won MVP in 2006 and plays for the Minnesota Twins.

Answer 11

I think Gary Carter is Canadian

Answer 12

Jason Bay and Russell Martin.

Answer 13

Eric Gagne

Answer 14

Justin Morneau was the first one that came to mind.

Answer 15

Jason Bay is all I can think of.

Answer 16

larry walker