Matt Stairs won the Major League Baseball World Championship in 2008 as part of the Philadelphia Phillies. Stairs also hold the MLB record for most home runs by a pinch-hitter (23) and is a member of the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame. Many Canadians will remember him as a 2007-2008 Toronto Blue Jays member.

Stairs started playing Beaver League ball in Fredericton, eventually playing for the local Marysville Royals and the Fredericton Schooners.

The home field of the Fredericton Royals, Royals Field, was designated as one of Canada’s Historic Places in 2010. The field has been in operation for more than a century.

Photo: Keith Allison on Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0; historicplaces.ca