He believed in giving angry athletes a second chance at a better quote to avoid making the player look bad, and was a board member for Canada's Sports Hall of Fame.

While performing a Doris Day song in Darien, Connecticut, actress Mary Martin invited him to audition for a role in South Pacific.

He declined the opportunity to sing in Broadway theatre, completed his high school education by 1950, then worked for C$35 per week as a teller at The Dominion Bank in downtown London, Ontario.

[4][5] Ferguson began his career with the Ottawa Citizen on January 3, 1967, and was the paper's first writer assigned to cover the Montreal Expos.

[9] His columns also covered football and basketball for the Ottawa Gee-Gees and the Carleton Ravens; golf, curling, and high school sports.

[2][5][9] His favourite stories covered were a no-hitter pitched by Bob Feller, and the 1985 Labatt Brier come-from-behind victory by Al Hackner.

Ferguson believed in giving angry athletes a second chance at a better quote, to avoid making the player look bad and getting future interviews.

[3] Sports journalist Bob Elliott described the book as "a resource must for libraries, newsrooms and anyone else wanting a reference guide to check on the best of the best of this country's athletes";[6] and stated that Ferguson was "a blood hound when it came to a news story and the same with doing research"; and that "Ferguson was Wikipedia before Google was a gleam in of [sic] the eyes of worldwide web founders Tim Berners-Lee, Marc Andreessen and Brian Behlendorf".

[3][12] In 2015, Bob Elliott included Ferguson in his list of the 101 most influential Canadians in baseball, as one of eight people selected in the #101 position.