Fergie Jenkins Interview

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➔ 3:02 — The Pitcher’s Arm
➔ 7:45 — Conditioning and "Doorway Exercises"
➔ 10:10 — Running & Weight-Training
➔ 16:52 — Pitching Greats
➔ 21:37 — Being Discovered
➔ 25:49 — The Mental Game
➔ 34:16 — Confidence & Self-Control
➔ 36:05 — Racism
➔ 39:15 — The Harlem Globetrotters
➔ 47:11 — Almost a Cy Young Award...
➔ 48:55 — The Pitcher’s Mound

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Ferguson Jenkins, or “Fergie,” is not just one of baseball’s greats but one of the Hall of Fame’s greats. He is the last pitcher to have won seven twenty-or-more game seasons. Pitching in the MLB from 1965 to 1983, and mainly in the National League, he faced the likes of Willie Mays, Hank Aaron, and Mickey Mantle.

In the interview, Bill and Curtis focused especially on Fergie’s habits of mind and unusually effective training techniques. There’s no pitcher like Fergie these days. He routinely pitched over 300 innings a season (these days pitchers are lucky to throw 200 innings in a season), threw batting practice for fun, and exhibited an amazing durability. Given all the arm injuries and surgeries to pitchers these days, this interview with Fergie offers many lessons for contemporary baseball.

The Fergie Jenkins Foundation We want to thank Fergie Jenkins as well as Carl Kovacs, President of the Fergie Jenkins Foundation for making these interviews possible. It was a busy time at the Cubs Convention, and Fergie as well as his Foundation could not have been kinder in sharing with TBS Fergie’s wisdom about pitching and life.

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DATE: January 14, 2017
LOCATION: 2017 Chicago Cubs Convention; Chicago, Illinois
INTERVIEWERS: Bill Dembski, Curtis Baugh