Pat Hentgen will be inducted into the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame.Nathan Denette/The Canadian Press
Pat Hentgen, the first Toronto Blue Jay to win the Cy Young Award, and Dennis Martinez, who pitched a perfect game while with the Montreal Expos, headline the 2016 class named for induction into the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame.
Joining the former pitchers will be scout Wayne Norton, longtime Jays executive Howard Starkman and former Jays television analyst Tony Kubek.
William Shuttleworth will be enshrined posthumously.
He put together Canada's first formal baseball team, Young Canadians of Hamilton.
The induction ceremony will be held June 18.
The six-foot-two Hentgen spent 26 seasons with Toronto as a player, coach, ambassador and special assistant. In 10 seasons on the mound for the Jays, the 47-year-old Detroit native registered 107 wins, fifth-most in club history.
Hentgen helped Toronto win consecutive World Series titles in 1992-93 then in '96 was named the American League Cy Young award winner after posting a 20-10 record with a 3.22 earned-run average and 177 strikeouts. Hentgen also pitched for St. Louis (2000) and Baltimore (2001-03) during his 14-year major league career.
Martinez, 60, a native of Granada, Nicaragua, registered 100 wins over parts of eight seasons with Montreal (1986-93) — he's one of only 10 players to win at least 100 games in both the National and American Leagues. The first Nicaraguan to play in the major leagues, Martinez pitched the only perfect game in Expos history in July 1991.
He compiled a 245-193 career record with Baltimore, Montreal, Cleveland, Seattle and Atlanta from 1976 to 1998.
Norton played 1,206 minor-league games — including five seasons at the triple-A level — before becoming a baseball executive and scout in Canada. He founded and established the Canadian junior national team in the 1970s, managed Canada's Pan Am Games team and established the National Baseball Institute in Vancouver.
He also served as a scout with Montreal, Baltimore and Seattle.
Starkman spent four decades as an executive with the Blue Jays. In 2014 the franchise established an award in Starkman's name to be given annually to the organization's employee of the year. Starkman was the first recipient.
Kubek won three World Series as an infielder with the New York Yankees before spending 25 seasons broadcasting games with NBC. Kubek then worked 13 seasons as an analyst on Toronto's broadcasts, starting in 1977.
He captured the National Baseball of Fame's Ford C. Frick Award for broadcasting excellence in 2009.
Shuttleworth served as vice-president of the first Canadian baseball organization in 1864.
He was also a member of the Ontario team (Hamilton and Guelph players) that finished third in a major Detroit baseball tournament in 1867. He worked as an umpire throughout the 1860s.
Shuttleworth died March 31, 1903 and was inducted into Canada's Sports Hall of Fame in 2015.