The Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame in St. Marys. Photo by Flickr user Robert Taylor. Used with a Creative Commons licence. The Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame in St. Marys. Photo by Flickr user Robert Taylor. Used with a Creative Commons licence.
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Hentgen, Martinez Among Canadian Hall Inductees

A Cy Young Award winner and a pitcher who threw a perfect game are among this year's class that will be inducted into the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame.

The Hall, based in St. Marys, unveiled its list of inductees Tuesday morning. Former Blue Jay Pat Hentgen, who won the American League Cy Young Award in 1996 when he won 20 games for Toronto, will be joined by former Montreal Expos pitcher Dennis Martinez.

"El Presidente" became the only Montreal Expos pitcher to throw a perfect game when he shut down the Los Angeles Dodgers on July 28, 1991.

Hentgen, who pitched for Toronto, St. Louis, and Baltimore, finished his career with a record of 131-112 with an Earned Run Average of 4.32.

Martinez is one of nine pitchers to win 100 games in both the American and National Leagues. He was 245-192 in a career that included stints in Montreal, Baltimore, Cleveland, Seattle, and Atlanta.

Also being inducted this summer;

Tony Kubek

The former New York Yankees shortstop and Blue Jays TV analyst spent 25 sesasons as an analyst, 13 of them with the Blue Jays broadcasts. In 2009, he became the first analyst to have broadcast the games of a Canadian team to win the Ford C. Frick Award for broadcasting excellence.

Wayne Norton

The Port Moody, B.C. native played 1,206 minor league games before becoming an executive and scout in Canada. In the mid-1970s, Norton founded and established Baseball Canada’s Junior National Team. He also worked as a scout for the Montreal Expos. Norton managed Canada’s Pan Am Games team in 1975. In the late 1970s, he was enlisted to create and write Baseball Canada’s first coaching manuals and many of the guidelines from those are still employed today. In 1986, Norton established the National Baseball Institute (NBI) in Vancouver.

Howard Starkman

Starkman has spent four decades as an executive with the Toronto Blue Jays. He was initially hired as director of public relations in 1976 and he served in that role until 1998. He was responsible for the club’s “Name the team” contest prior to the inaugural season that resulted in the Blue Jays name. Starkman won the National Baseball Hall of Fame’s Robert O. Fishel Award in 1995, an honour that’s given each year for excellence in public relations. William Shuttleworth

The Brantford native, born in 1834, has been called the “Father of Canadian Baseball.” In 1854, organized Canada’s first formal baseball team, which was called the Young Canadians of Hamilton. From 1854 through the 1870s, Shuttleworth was a driving force behind the sport in Canada and he served as vice-president of the first Canadian baseball organization in 1864.

This year's induction ceremony will be held at the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame in St. Marys on June 18.

 

**photo of the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame by Robert Taylor**

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