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Larry Kenneth Robert Walker (born December 1, 1966) is a Canadian former professional baseball right fielder. During his 17-year Major League Baseball (MLB) career, he played with the Montreal Expos, Colorado Rockies, and St. Louis Cardinals.
Dec 1, 2010 · Larry Walker is a Hall of Fame rightfielder and first baseman who played for the Expos, Rockies and Cardinals. He won five Gold Gloves, three Silver Sluggers and three batting titles, with a career average of .313 and 383 home runs.
- December 1, 1966
Sep 8, 2021 · The Canadian slugger, who played for Montreal, Colorado and St. Louis, joins Derek Jeter, Ted Simmons and Marvin Miller in the 2021 class. He thanks his home country and his adopted country in his speech and shares his dream of playing in the big leagues.
Larry Walker is a Canadian right fielder who played for the Montreal Expos and Colorado Rockies. He won three batting titles, one MVP award, five Gold Gloves and 383 home runs in his career.
- Early Years
- Early Baseball Career
- Career with Montreal Expos
- Career with Colorado Rockies
- Career with St. Louis Cardinals
- Coaching Career
- Characteristics and Achievements
- Honours and Inductions
- Awards
Larry Walker grew up in Maple Ridge, British Columbia, the youngest of four sons to Mary and Larry Walker Sr. Larry Sr. had been a talented young baseball player with the team that is now the Vancouver Canadians. Larry Jr. played hockey and was a goaltender for 13 years. His teammates included childhood friend Cam Neely, who went on to a Hall of Fa...
Walker then turned to baseball, but without any career aspirations. As he told Sports Illustratedin 1993, “In Canada, as a kid, we’d play 10 baseball games a year. Fifteen, tops… Baseball just wasn’t big. The weather was against it. Nobody ever played baseball thinking about making the major leagues. It was just a game, just something to do.” Walke...
Walker made his Major League debut with the Montreal Exposon 16 August 1989, starting in right field against the San Francisco Giants. He walked three times in the game and got his first hit against pitcher Mike LaCoss. In his 20-game cup of coffee with the Expos that year, Walker hit an anemic .170/.264/.170. However, in 1990, his first full seaso...
The financially strapped Exposwere unable to re-sign Walker, now a superstar, when he became a free agent before the 1995 season. He was signed by the Colorado Rockies of the National League in April 1995. Walker’s batting average topped the .300 mark (.306) for the second straight year and the third time in four years. His 36 home runs, 72 extra-b...
In 2004, at the age of 37, Walker asked to be traded to a contending team. He was dealt to the St. Louis Cardinals partway through the season. He had a strong season at the plate, hitting .298/.424/.589 between both teams. He played in only 82 games due to injury but was healthy in the post-season. He hit .310/.398/.760 in 15 playoff games before t...
Larry Walker continued to be involved in baseball as a coach. He worked as a part-time instructor with the St. Louis Cardinals from 2006 to 2008 and served as a coach for Team Canada at the World Baseball Classic in 2009, 2013 and 2017. He was also the first-base coach and hitting coach for Team Canada when it won the gold medal against the United ...
Don Baylor, the Colorado Rockies’ manager from 1993 to 1998, called Walker “the most talented player I’ve ever had. He never misses the cutoff man, he never throws to the wrong base; he has speed, power and intelligence. All you have to do is write his name down in the lineup and he’ll take care of the rest.” Walker’s exceptional, all around athlet...
Larry Walker was inducted into Canada’s Sports Hall of Fame in 2007, as well as the BC Sports Hall of Fame and Museum and the Canadian Baseball Hall of Famein 2009 and the Colorado Sports Hall of Fame in 2011. On 17 January 2020, the Colorado Rockies announced that they would retire Walker’s No. 33 before a game against the St. Louis Cardinals at C...
Gold Glove (Right Field), National League (1992)Silver Slugger (Right Field), National League (1992)Player of the Year Award, Montreal Expos(1992)Gold Glove (Right Field), National League (1993)Larry Walker is a former outfielder who played for the Montreal Expos and Colorado Rockies in the NL. He won the MVP, the Silver Slugger, the Gold Glove and the HOF awards in his career.
Feb 11, 2009 · Learn about Larry Walker, the greatest position player Canada has ever produced, who played for Montreal Expos, Colorado Rockies and St. Louis Cardinals. See his career statistics, awards and honors, and how he was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in 2020.
