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Dave Stieb, Steve Rogers headline 2005 Canadian Hall inductees
SHI DAVIDI
February 24, 2005
(CP) - Dave Stieb and Steve Rogers, the all-time winningest pitchers for the Toronto Blue Jays and Montreal Expos, were named for induction to the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame on Thursday.
Joining them in the Class of 2005 are Charles (Pop) Smith, who played in 1,112 major-league games between 1880 and 1891, and longtime trainer Harold (Doc) Younker.
The aces of Canada's teams during the 1970s and '80s, Rogers and Stieb were two of the most popular pitchers to take the mound north of the border.
Rogers, a native of Jefferson City, Mo., spent his entire 13-year career with the Expos, helping lead them from expansion oddity to legitimate contender.
The right-hander, chosen fourth overall in the 1971 draft, went 158-152 with a 3.17 earned-run average over 399 career games from 1973 to '85.
He had several stellar seasons, including a 19-8 mark in 1982 and won at least 12 games or more from 1977 through 1983.
Stieb, meanwhile, was at the front of the rotation for the Blue Jays in the 1980s, a decade in which he won 140 games.
The right-hander from Santa Ana, Calif., won 16 games twice, 17 games three times and set a personal high of 18 in 1990.
Stieb went 175-134 as a Blue Jay, with a 3.42 ERA in 439 games with the club. He went 1-3 during a brief stint with the Chicago White Sox in 1993.
A fifth-round draft pick in 1978, he is widely regarded as the best starter developed by the Blue Jays.
He's perhaps best remembered for his repeated flirtations with perfect games - in his final two starts of 1988, he ended up with one-hitters after twice surrendering two-out hits in the ninth inning - before finally recording a no-hitter on Sept. 2, 1990, at Cleveland.
In 1998, Stieb made a comeback with the Blue Jays at age 40 after four seasons on the sidelines. He was 1-2 with two saves in 19 games and retired for good after the season.
Smith, born in Digby, N.S., in 1856 and died in Boston in 1927, batted .222 during his career spent primarily with the Pittsburgh Alleghenys. The second baseman had 24 homers with 358 RBIs and 169 stolen bases.
Younker spent nearly 50 years as a trainer, including the 1984 season with the San Diego Padres, when they lost to the Detroit Tigers in the World Series . He was also Canada's trainer at the 1988 Seoul Olympics.
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Dave Stieb, Steve Rogers headline 2005 Canadian Hall inductees
SHI DAVIDI
February 24, 2005
(CP) - Dave Stieb and Steve Rogers, the all-time winningest pitchers for the Toronto Blue Jays and Montreal Expos, were named for induction to the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame on Thursday.
Joining them in the Class of 2005 are Charles (Pop) Smith, who played in 1,112 major-league games between 1880 and 1891, and longtime trainer Harold (Doc) Younker.
The aces of Canada's teams during the 1970s and '80s, Rogers and Stieb were two of the most popular pitchers to take the mound north of the border.
Rogers, a native of Jefferson City, Mo., spent his entire 13-year career with the Expos, helping lead them from expansion oddity to legitimate contender.
The right-hander, chosen fourth overall in the 1971 draft, went 158-152 with a 3.17 earned-run average over 399 career games from 1973 to '85.
He had several stellar seasons, including a 19-8 mark in 1982 and won at least 12 games or more from 1977 through 1983.
Stieb, meanwhile, was at the front of the rotation for the Blue Jays in the 1980s, a decade in which he won 140 games.
The right-hander from Santa Ana, Calif., won 16 games twice, 17 games three times and set a personal high of 18 in 1990.
Stieb went 175-134 as a Blue Jay, with a 3.42 ERA in 439 games with the club. He went 1-3 during a brief stint with the Chicago White Sox in 1993.
A fifth-round draft pick in 1978, he is widely regarded as the best starter developed by the Blue Jays.
He's perhaps best remembered for his repeated flirtations with perfect games - in his final two starts of 1988, he ended up with one-hitters after twice surrendering two-out hits in the ninth inning - before finally recording a no-hitter on Sept. 2, 1990, at Cleveland.
In 1998, Stieb made a comeback with the Blue Jays at age 40 after four seasons on the sidelines. He was 1-2 with two saves in 19 games and retired for good after the season.
Smith, born in Digby, N.S., in 1856 and died in Boston in 1927, batted .222 during his career spent primarily with the Pittsburgh Alleghenys. The second baseman had 24 homers with 358 RBIs and 169 stolen bases.
Younker spent nearly 50 years as a trainer, including the 1984 season with the San Diego Padres, when they lost to the Detroit Tigers in the World Series . He was also Canada's trainer at the 1988 Seoul Olympics.