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Matthew Wade Stairs (born February 27, 1968) is a Canadian baseball player.Born in Saint John, New Brunswick, Stairs showed athletic ability at an early age, playing Beaver League baseball a year before his age eligibility. After Bantam & Midget baseball, at age 16 he played for the Marysville team in the New Brunswick Senior Baseball league where he was voted "Rookie of The Year" and in his second year was named the league's Most Valuable Player.
After attending the Baseball Institute School in Vancouver, British Columbia for one year, he joined the Canadian Junior National team from where he went on to play for the Canadian Olympic Team at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. He played for Canada at the World Amateur Championships in Italy where he was named to the "World All-Star" team.
Signed by the Montreal Expos to a minor league contract, Stairs played Double “A” ball in Harrisburg, Pa. where he led the league in hitting and was voted the league’s 1991 M.V.P. In 1992, he moved up to Triple “A” ball in Indianapolis then played the following season in Japan. In 1995, he was traded to the Boston Red Sox and assigned to their Pawtucket farm club until being called up to the major leagues in June 1995. At the end of the season, he accepted an offer to play with the Oakland AthleticsThe Oakland Athletics are a Major League Baseball team based in Oakland, California. They are in the Western Division of the American League. The team is often called the A's . Founded 1893, as the Indianapolis, Indiana franchise in the minor Western Leag. After being called up from Triple “A” ball, Stairs immediately joined a very elite circle when he tied a Major League BaseballMajor League Baseball MLB is the highest level of play in professional baseball in North America. More specifically, Major League Baseball ("MLB") refers to the entity that operates North America's two top leagues, the National League and the American Lea record for driving in six runs in one inning.
He is only the second Canadian born player to ever hit more than thirty-five home runs in a season and only the second to hit more than 25 home runs and drive in more than 100 runs in back-to-back seasons. He ranks either first or second in power hitting categories of any Canadian to ever play in the Major Leagues.
1 See also
- Players from Canada in MLBThis is an alphabetical list of 203 baseball players from Canada which had played in Major League Baseball between 1875 and 2004. A Bob Alexander Wiman Andrus Bill Atkinson Derek Aucoin B Ed Bahr John Balaz Vince Barton Jason Bay Erik Bedard Denis Boucher
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