Matt Stairs full name Matthew Wade Stairs originally from Canada is a Major League Baseball outfielder who plays for the Philadelphia Phillies. Matt Stairs married Lisa Astle of Fredericton with whom he has three daughters, Nicole, Alicia and Chandler. In the off-season, Matt Stairs lives in Bangor, Maine, where he coaches hockey for John Bapst Memorial High School, a private high school. Growing up in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Matt Stairs showed athletic ability at an early age, playing Beaver League baseball a year before his age eligibility and excelling in hockey.

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After Bantam & Midget baseball, at age 16 and 17 Matt Stairs played for the local Marysville Royals of the New Brunswick Senior Baseball League, where he was voted Rookie of The Year in 1984 and the league’s Most Valuable Player in ‘85.

Matt Stairs was also named Nova Scotia Senior Baseball League MVP in 1987 and ‘88 playing for the Fredericton Schooners. After attending the National Baseball Institute NBI in Vancouver, British
Columbia for one year, he joined the Canadian Junior National team after graduating from Fredericton High School in 1988.

From there Matt Stairs went on to play for the Canadian Olympic Team at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. Matt Stairs played for Canada at the 1987 World Amateur Championships in
Italy where he was named to the World All-Star team.

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