Tag: Albert Belle
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1996 Upper Deck Showcase Run Producers (#RP1)
Over the past two seasons, Belle has hit .334 with 320 hits, 86 home runs, 227 RBI and 211 runs scored. Each one of those marks leads the American League during that span. In 1995, he became the 12th player ever to sock 50 or more roundtrippers in a single season.
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1998 Pinnacle Artist’s Proof All-Star (#AP2)
A feared slugger, Albert has led the American League in RBIs three times, total bases twice, and runs, doubles, home runs, and slugging once each. The only man to produce 50 doubles and 50 homers in the same season, Albert has also hit three home runs in a game twice. In 1997, his first season…
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2012 Topps Five Star Autographs
3 AL RBI titles in 4 years, 1993–96. Cleveland’s 1st 50-HR hitter (1995). .714 SLG in ’94 – 10th-best ever by RH. 11 straight hits for extra sacks (’95). 4 of his 5 Silver Sluggers with Indians.
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2000 Topps Chrome Refractor #405
Baseball’s RBI champion of the 90s (1,099), Albert is one of only 14 players to knock home a hundred for three different teams. He averages 132 RBI per 162 games in his career.
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1997 Fleer Team Leaders
Although he fell a bit short of repeating his 50-tater barrage of 1995, Albert Belle was his dominating self during the ’96 campaign. Last season, Belle became the first Indian ever to lead the league in HRs. The enigmatic outfielder placed fourth in AL “round-tripping” with 48 this year. But Cleveland’s clean-up Belle-ringer did manage…
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1998 Topps Etch-A-Sketch #ES1
A sixth straight 100-RBI season preserved Belle’s reputation as one of the most consistent run-producers of the era. He and Frank Thomas are, in fact, the only two players to reach that level each year since 1992. His prowess once prompted his former manager Mike Hargrove to observe, “He has his physical limits, but I…
Albert Belle: The Original 50/50 Man 