Editing Ferguson Jenkins (section)

====Later seasons====
In 1972, Jenkins completed his sixth consecutive season with 20 or more wins.<ref name=Engelhardt>{{cite news |last=Engelhardt |first=Gordon |title=Jenkins, Fingers 'still fit' their legendary status in baseball |url=http://www.courierpress.com/news/2013/sep/07/cp/ |access-date=September 21, 2013 |newspaper=[[Evansville Courier & Press]] |date=September 7, 2013 |archive-date=February 4, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140204050530/http://www.courierpress.com/news/2013/sep/07/cp/ |url-status=dead}}</ref> By the middle of the following season, he expressed that he did not feel like playing baseball anymore. He finished the season, but registered a 14–16 win–loss record.

Jenkins was traded from the Cubs to the [[Texas Rangers (baseball)|Texas Rangers]] for [[Bill Madlock]] and [[Vic Harris (utility player)|Vic Harris]] on October 25, 1973.<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/1973/10/26/archives/padres-get-mccovey-jenkins-to-texas-jenkins-mccovey-in-trades.html "Padres Get McCovey," ''The New York Times'', Friday, October 26, 1973.] Retrieved November 28, 2020</ref> Texas manager [[Billy Martin]] was pleased with the trade, describing Jenkins as a workhorse and a winner.<ref name=Sentinel>{{cite news |title=Cubs trade Jenkins to Texas for youth |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=ODBjAAAAIBAJ&pg=1054,2804623&dq=ferguson+jenkins+trade&hl=en |access-date=September 21, 2013 |newspaper=The Rochester Sentinel |date=October 26, 1973}}</ref> In 1974, Jenkins achieved a personal best 25 wins during the season, setting a Rangers franchise record which still stands. He finished second in [[Cy Young Award]] voting for the second time in his career behind [[Catfish Hunter]] in a very close vote (90 points to Jenkins's 75); surprisingly, Jenkins actually finished ahead of Hunter in [[Major League Baseball Most Valuable Player|MVP]] voting (118 points to Hunter's 107), and his fifth-place finish on the MVP leader-board was the highest of his career. He was named the American League [[Sporting News Comeback Player of the Year Award|Comeback Player of the Year]] by ''[[The Sporting News]]''.

Jenkins achieved his 250th win against the [[Oakland Athletics]] on May 23, 1980. Later that year, during a customs search in [[Toronto]], Jenkins was found possessing 3.0 grams [[cocaine]], 2.2 grams [[hashish]], and 1.75 grams [[cannabis (drug)|marijuana]]. In response, on September 8, [[Baseball Commissioner|Commissioner]] [[Bowie Kuhn]] suspended him indefinitely. However, Jenkins' suspension lasted only two weeks before, in an unprecedented action, an independent arbiter, Raymond Goetz, overturned the suspension and reinstated him and he returned to the league. Eventually, when he went to trial, the judge gave him an absolute discharge for lack of some evidence.<ref>[http://www.1919blacksox.com/banished.htm 1919 Black Sox] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080820215849/http://1919blacksox.com/banished.htm |date=August 20, 2008 }}</ref> Jenkins was not punished further by MLB for the incident, as he remained active until his retirement following the 1983 season. It has been suggested that this incident delayed his induction into the Baseball Hall of Fame.<ref>{{cite news |last=Able |first=Allen |title=Fergie Jenkins, 1st Cdn. in Baseball Hall of Fame |work=[[The Journal (Canadian TV show)|The Journal]] |publisher=Archives, [[Canadian Broadcasting Corporation]] |date=July 15, 1991 – August 26, 2006 |url=http://archives.cbc.ca/IDC-1-41-2340-13544-10/on_this_day/sports/twt |access-date=May 4, 2007}}</ref>