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Wake Up With Albert Belle Homering In His Last Career At-Bat

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83FnL4gx_6M
Albert Belle will always be known as one of baseball's biggest jackasses. The guy was not nice to anyone. Teammates, opposing players, the media, kids who egged his house on halloween, he was a complete jerk, but man could he turn on a pitch. Here he is homering in his last at-bat ever, number 381 for his career. His career was cut short due to various injuries, but his hip being the biggest one.
Like I said above, say what you want about the guy, but he was one of the best and most consistent power hitters of all time. I mean he was truly a guy that people feared on the field. If you take away his first two seasons where he played just 71 games combined, he would go on to average 37 homers and and 120 RBIs per season. His power numbers were always consistent too, starting in 1991 he would go on to hit 28, 34, 38, 36, 50, 48, 30, 49, 37, and 23. Guy could barely walk due to his bad hip and still managed to hit 23 in his final season. He drove in over 100 runs in 9 of his 12 seasons, and those 9 seasons were all in a row, I wanted to add that in 1991 he drove in 97 runs too, so it was very close to being 10 seasons in a row with over 100, thats insane. He put up the first and only 50 homer/50 doubles season as well. An on-base machine who didn't strike out much, and was a freak at the plate. God forbid he corks a bat or 2, or levels Fernando Vina while Vina is attempting to tag him out, Belle was a terrifying man to play against, but he could hit the shit out of the ball.
You could argue that he belongs in the Hall of Fame because of his dominating numbers, but he hated the media and the media hated him. In his first year of eligibility for Cooperstown he got only 7.7% of the vote and dropped off the ballot shortly after that.