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Gary Sheffield

Literary baseball greetings: Big Papi, Sheff, and Flash — plus

November 18, 2010

Also born this date, Jay Hook, who earned the first of the Mets’ 3,734 victories.

Tagged as: David Ortiz, Gary Sheffield, Jay Hook, Tom Gordon

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* Looks like Sheffield = rewrite

April 18, 2009

Congrats to Gary Sheffield for hitting home run number 500 last night at City Field. It’s about time this one got a rewrite anyway. Since it came out in 2000, Barry Bonds, Ken Griffey Jr., Sammy Sosa, Raphael Palmeiro, Alex Rodriguez, Jim Thome, Manny Ramirez, and Frank Thomas have all joined the exclusive club. Of […]

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* With mega-apologies to Eliot Asinof

March 24, 2009

The new Eight Men Out, according to the NY Daily News (out of Hall of Fame consideratio, that is): Alex Rodriguez Barry Bonds Roger Clemens Mark McGwire Raphael Palmiero Ivan Rodriguez Gary Sheffield Sammy Sosa

Tagged as: Alex Rodriguez, Barry Bonds, Gary Sheffield, Hall of Fame, Ivan Rodriguez, Mark McGwire, Raphael Palmiero, Roger Clemens, Sammy Sosa

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* Congratulations, Gary Sheffield

September 9, 2008

He becomes the answer to the trivia question, who hit the 250,000th home run in the majors? Milestone Home Runs, compiled by Baseball-Reference.com 1. 1876-05-02 Ross Barnes (CHC) off Cherokee Fisher (CIN) in 5th inning 100. 1879-06-17 Charley Jones (BSN) off Will White (CIN) in 1st inning *1,000. 1884-07-04 Ned Williamson (CHC) off John Coleman […]

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