Larry Kenneth Robert Walker (born December 1, 1966 in Maple Ridge, British Columbia, Canada) was a right fielder in Major League Baseball. From either 1989 through 2005, Walker has played for the Montreal Expos (1989-94), Colorado Rockies (1995-2004) and St. Louis Cardinals (2004-2005). He bats left & throws best handed. Walker announced his retirement when Game 6 of the 2005 National League Championship Series.

Early career
Walker is widely take to be a better Canadian position player in a history of the game, if does'nt the better American ballplayer ever. He enjoyed a average American passions as a little one &, rather everyone his age, aspired to exist as an ice hockey player. Eventually, he uncovered treating the bat further natural than wielding the stick.

Sign per Montreal Expos as an amateur free agent in 1984, Walker made his debut using Montreal in August 16, 1989. In the period of his number 1 many seasons, he was an above norm hitter altogether respects, hitting for a select few power, stealing 20-30 bases, and regularly batting near the .300 mark.

Inside 1994, the Exposition team – & Walker himself – appeared to become rising to its expected. Grounded by rising immature stars Pedro Martínez, Moisés Alou, Cliff Floyd, Mike Lansing and Jeff Fassero, Montreal was off to a 74-40 begin, leading the National League Eastern Division. Walker, by having 86 RBI, was well in his way to his number 1 100-RBI season. A year, nonetheless, was stopped due to the 1994 players' strike. There is no World Series, which a Exposition appeared to exist as destined for, was played & Montreal misplaced numbers of of its players in the period of the next year due to loose professional & earnings constraints. A 1994 Montreal Expos team that stand been remains one of baseball's hot discussion points.

Prior to a 1995 season, Walker signed with a Colorado Rockies, in which a thinly air of Coors Field was an instant boon to his cost figures. Walker was the major contributor inside Colorado's winning 1995 year, hitting 36 home runs and 101 Run batted in.

Best season
Walker's better year come inside 1997, when he hit .366 using 49 home runs, 13Run batted in, 33 purloined bases, & 409 total bases, en route to becoming the number 1 American streaming video player to win the MVP Award. Walker misplaced a 1997 Lou Marsh Award for Canadian Male Athlete of the Month award to Formula One driver Jacques Villeneuve. He did, yet, win a award a below month. Conjunct sustaining Xii outfield assists, a year remains one of the finest everthing around performances within recent baseball history.

Walker has been plagued by many injuries above a retiring years however he has yet continued to green goods. Around August 2004, he was traded to the St. Louis Cardinals for trinity minor league players. When of the prevent of the year, his 368 career residence diarrhea ranked him 61st in the completely-period listings.

Accomplishments
Lou Marsh Trophy (1998) Five-instance All-Star (1992, 1997-99, 2001) Half a dozen-instance National League Gold Glove Award winner (1992-93, 1997-98, 2001-02) Nina from carolina-instance Tip O'Neill Award winner (1987, 1990, 1992, 1994-95, 1997-98, 2001 - with Corey Koskie, 2002 - with Eric Gagné) National League MVP award (1997) Threesome-instance Top X MVP (1992, Fifth; 1995, Seventh; 1995, 10th) Trio-period Silver Slugger Award (1992, 1997, 1999)

Fact
Walker's 409 aggregate bases around 1997 were the virtually all around a Cc year since Stan Musial's 1948 season, although the mark was bettered by Barry Bonds in 2001 (411), Luis Gonzalez in 2001 (419), and twice by Sammy Sosa, in 1998 (416) and 2001 (425). Between 1948 then, a mark was achieved single by Jim Rice in 1978 (406).