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Érik Joseph Bédard (pronounced (:eʁik beˈdɑʁ) ''baydar''; born March 6, 1979) is a Canadian former professional baseball pitcher. He pitched in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Baltimore Orioles, Seattle Mariners, Boston Red Sox, Pittsburgh Pirates, Houston Astros and Tampa Bay Rays. With Baltimore, Bédard was the staff ace, setting the franchise single-season strikeouts per nine innings record at 10.93 in 2007. ==Early years== Bédard was born on March 6, 1979 in Navan, Ontario, a suburb of Ottawa. A Franco-Ontarian, Bédard began his baseball career in the Orleans Little League and the Ontario Baseball Association. He was a pitcher on the 1992 Orleans Junior Red Sox team which beat Glace Bay in the 1992 Canadian Championship. Bédard did not play high school baseball, which is common in Canada due to the short season. Although and as a senior, he grew seven inches and gained during the summer between graduating from high school and beginning college. He accompanied a friend to a tryout at Norwalk Community College in Norwalk, Connecticut, and made the baseball team as a walk-on.〔David Picker, New York Times, (Soft-Spoken Bédard Has Others Talking ), August 15, 2007〕 While in college, he added 10 miles per hour to his fastball, gained another , took the "lowest level" non-credit English language course to enhance his knowledge of the language, and became a junior college All-American. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Érik Bédard」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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