⚾ Ferguson "Fergie" Jenkins Signed Rawlings Official Major League Baseball ROML Beckett BAS COA — Chatham, Ontario, Canada — Chicago Cubs — 1971 NL Cy Young Award — 284 Career Wins — 3,192 Career Strikeouts — Baseball Hall of Fame 1991 — First Canadian-Born Hall of Famer — BAS Certified Autograph

⚾ A Ferguson "Fergie" Jenkins signed Rawlings Official Major League Baseball (ROML) with Beckett Authentication Services (BAS) Certificate of Authenticity. Fergie Jenkins — the first Canadian-born player inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame, the 1971 NL Cy Young Award winner, the only pitcher in baseball history to record 3,000 strikeouts and fewer than 1,000 walks, and one of the most precise right-handed pitchers of the 1960s and 1970s — signed this Rawlings Official Major League Baseball. BAS-certified genuine. Condition: NOS.

🌟 Chatham, Ontario, Canada — The First Canadian Hall of Famer

Ferguson Arthur Jenkins was born December 13, 1943, in Chatham, Ontario, Canada — a city in southwestern Ontario near Lake Erie that gave baseball one of its greatest pitching craftsmen. Growing up in Chatham, Jenkins was an exceptional multi-sport athlete — he played basketball, hockey, and baseball at elite levels, and was even offered a contract to play basketball with the Harlem Globetrotters before choosing baseball. The Philadelphia Phillies signed Jenkins in 1962, beginning a professional journey that would lead through the minor leagues to Chicago and to the most dominant pitching stretch in Cubs history since Grover Cleveland Alexander. When Jenkins was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame at Cooperstown in 1991, he became the first Canadian-born player to receive that honor — a distinction he carries as a point of national pride for the country that produced him. The Rawlings ROML baseball he signed and that BAS certified carries the autograph of the Chatham kid who made history in Cooperstown. Condition: NOS.

⭐ Chicago Cubs — Wrigley Field — Six Consecutive 20-Win Seasons — The Cy Young Year of 1971

The Philadelphia Phillies traded Jenkins to the Chicago Cubs after the 1965 season in one of the most productive trades in Cubs history, and the results were immediate and sustained. From 1967 through 1972, Jenkins won 20 or more games in six consecutive seasons — a streak of pitching excellence that placed him among the greatest workhorses in National League history. At Wrigley Field, with its famous ivy walls and its wind conditions that could either help or destroy a pitcher, Jenkins adapted to the ballpark's idiosyncrasies and delivered elite performances that his Cubs teams rarely supported with adequate run production. The 1971 season was the crown jewel: Jenkins went 24-13 with a 2.77 ERA, 263 strikeouts, and 30 complete games, winning the NL Cy Young Award in one of the most dominant pitching seasons of the decade. The Rawlings ROML BAS-signed baseball is the artifact of the pitcher who brought those Wrigley performances — sustained, dominant, and historically significant — into a single autographed collectible. Condition: NOS.

⭐ The 3,000 Strikeout / Sub-1,000 Walk Achievement — The Statistical Rarity That Defines Jenkins' Legacy

The most remarkable statistical fact about Ferguson Jenkins is this: he is the only pitcher in MLB history to record more than 3,000 career strikeouts and fewer than 1,000 career walks. Jenkins finished with 3,192 strikeouts and just 997 walks across a career that spanned 19 seasons — a ratio of command to power that no other 3,000-strikeout pitcher has ever approached. The combination of elite stuff and elite control is the rarest achievement in pitching, and Jenkins' statistical profile stands alone as evidence of how precise and how dominant his command of the strike zone was throughout his career. The BAS-signed ROML baseball is the autographed document of the Chatham, Ontario craftsman who owned that singular statistical distinction. Condition: NOS.

📦 Item Details

Item: Ferguson "Fergie" Jenkins Signed Rawlings Official Major League Baseball (ROML). Authentication: Beckett Authentication Services (BAS) Certificate of Authenticity. Athlete: Ferguson Jenkins. Born: December 13, 1943, Chatham, Ontario, Canada. Career wins: 284. Career strikeouts: 3,192. Career walks: 997. 1971 NL Cy Young Award. Baseball Hall of Fame: 1991. First Canadian-born inductee. Condition: NOS.

⚾⭐ Chatham. Ontario. Canada. First Canadian Hall of Famer. Philadelphia. The trade to Chicago. The Cubs. Wrigley Field. The ivy. The wind. Six consecutive 20-win seasons. 1967 through 1972. The 1971 Cy Young. 24 wins. 2.77 ERA. 263 strikeouts. 30 complete games. 284 career wins. 3,192 strikeouts. 997 walks. The only pitcher. The statistical rarity. Cooperstown. 1991. The Rawlings baseball. BAS certified. Signed. Condition: NOS.