Albert belle where is he now

On a weak ballot, he might even have a decent shot at getting in. Cooperstown chances: 30 percent. Beyond Selig and Schuerholz, the ballot looks like something of a crapshoot. The late George Steinbrenner is back on the veterans ballot, but no great groundswell of support seems to be developing for the former New York Yankees owner. I don't have to take on the world and do everything Albert's way, because now, it's not about me.

Belle and his wife of 12 years live in Scottsdale, Ariz. Belle noted, "I was just telling my wife, I was like, 'I couldn't imagine trying to wake up and play a game after I was up with the kid all night because they had the flu and I had to stay up and take care of them and make sure they were OK.

Once one kid gets sick, the others get sick, then I get sick. You could die. You may not die instantly. In , he had his first hit season and drove in a career-high runs while hitting. He later signed a deal with the Baltimore Orioles , but his career was cut short at age 34 because of a degenerative hip condition. He finished his career with home runs. Albert Belle came into the league as Joey Belle. It happened early in his career when a fan named Jeff Pilar mocked Belle, calling him Joey and inviting him to a keg party after Belle just got out of rehab.

Belle took the baseball he was holding and fired it off the chest of Pillar, who was sitting in the stands. He was suspended for the incident. Belle also had a disdain for the media. Awakened by an inquisitive reporter the next morning in his Minneapolis hotel room, McNamara mumbled, "Hello," and the caller said, using the casual crudity of "locker room banter," "How about that bleeping Belle? The raging Belle returns.

Together Belle's temper and thirst kept him from serious consideration for induction by inimical Baseball Hall of Fame writers and certainly denied him his deserved American League MVP award.

The more personable Mo Vaughn of Boston won with inferior statistics. Two years later, always resenting that he had traded quick riches for long-term security in his Tribe contract, Belle chased every last dollar to Chicago with the White Sox. Fans here threw Monopoly money at him and vilified him throughout his first game back. Belle's rejoinder was a middle finger salute from the outfield with his right hand held behind his back. As Johnny Mac could have said, that was really something too.

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