CANADA – Larry Walker is recognized as the best baseball player Canada has ever produced, and while he might humbly agree, the Maple Ridge, B.C., product maintains that his lofty status won’t be enduring.

“It’s humbling, but put it this way, if I am it’s not going to last very much longer because the crop of talent coming up behind me in Matt Stairs and Jason Bay and especially Justin Morneau — those guys are certainly going to surpass anything I’m going to do,” Walker said Wednesday during a conference call announcing his induction into the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame.

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