3 thoughts on “Albert Belle: Paragon of professionalism

  1. I hadnt thought about Albert Belle in years, so looked up his stats and man that guy was a really good player.

    His Wikipedia page is also a good read. Goes from:

    ” A former Boy Scout, he attained the rank of Eagle Scout. Belle attended Huntington High School in Shreveport, where he was a star baseball and football player, a member of the National Honor Society and vice president of the local Future Business Leaders of America. He graduated sixth in his high school class and made the all-state baseball team twice”

    To:

    -he threw a baseball into the stands, where it struck a fan who had taunted him
    -He was suspended in 1994 for using a corked bat and received further disdain for sending teammate Jason Grimsley through the building’s ceiling panel to break into the locked umpire dressing room to retrieve Belle’s corked bat and substitute it with another teammate’s bat
    -He also chased down rowdy trick-or-treating vandals who were celebrating Halloween by throwing eggs at his home; Belle ended up hitting one of the vandals with his car.
    -Belle walked over, turned down the thermostat, and smashed it with his bat. His nickname, thereafter, was “Mr. Freeze.”[3]

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