A Canadian baseball legend is being honoured in bronze.<\/p>\n
The Colorado Rockies<\/a> announced<\/a> Saturday that they will unveil a statue of Baseball Hall of Famer Larry Walker at Coors Field this coming August.<\/p>\n The Maple Ridge, B.C., native played for Colorado from 1995-2004, winning National League MVP in ’97. Walker became the second Canadian member of the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2020, after pitcher Ferguson Jenkins (1991).<\/p>\n The Rockies will also unveil a statue of Todd Helton in September. Helton spent his entire 17-year MLB career in Colorado, and is the club’s all-time leader in several offensive categories.<\/p>\n Walker was a four-time all-star in Colorado, also winning three Gold Gloves and two Silver Slugger awards during his Rockies tenure. He also played for the Montreal Expos and St. Louis Cardinals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Canadian baseball legend is being honoured in bronze. The Colorado Rockies announced Saturday that they will unveil…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":431056,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-431055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=431055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/431056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}